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Community, outdoors
Otter spotting in Annie’s Basin highlights furry apex predator
Late last month, a Milton resident posted a picture of a river otter swimming through Annie’s Basin near the Blackwater River. The woman was on her dock when a little furry head stuck out of the water.
While not an uncommon sight, river otters are not exactly the poster child for Florida animals. Despite not being as famed as alligators, manatees and Florida panthers, river otters play an important ecological role.
An otter in St. Marks Wildlife Refuge near Tallahassee. Photo by Bebe Booth.
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