How can such murderous creatures be so good at the keyboard?
Despite their adorable appearance and totally relatable love of freshly murdered seafood, otters are the biggest dicks in the world.
More specifically, they love to have violent, very-nonconsensual sex with any animal that gets in their way of eating.
As IFLScience describes, "It takes a lot of resources to feed an otter – they need to eat approximately 25% of their body weight every single day. When food is in short supply things can get ugly. Some males will hold otter pups hostage until the mother pays a ransom of food to the male.
But they don't just kidnap babies. Sea otters also rape baby seals to death. Male otters will find a juvenile harbor seal and mount it, as if he were mating with a female otter. Unfortunately, part of the mating process involves holding the female’s head under water which ultimately kills the seal pups (and over 10% of female otters). For over an hour and a half, the male otter will hold the seal pup in this position, raping it until it is dead. Sometimes when the seal pup dies, it is just let go and the otter will begin to groom itself. Some otters, however, will hang on to the dead pup and continue to rape its dead and decaying corpse for up to a week later."
… WOW.
Anyway, here's some footage of otters playing weirdly skillful free jazz on a Casio at the Smithsonian Zoo.
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