{"id":8822,"date":"2014-04-16T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/onetravel-animal-of-the-week-the-eurasian-otter\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:39:01","slug":"onetravel-animal-of-the-week-the-eurasian-otter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/onetravel-animal-of-the-week-the-eurasian-otter\/","title":{"rendered":"OneTravel Animal of the Week: The Eurasian Otter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"OneTravel Animal of the Week: The Eurasian Otter\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2014\/4\/shutterstock_147429368.jpg\" alt=\"OneTravel Animal of the Week: The Eurasian Otter\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are around five people in the entire world who don\u2019t love otters, and they\u2019ve probably never seen one. Impress your animal-loving friends with these fast facts about the Eurasian otter.<br \/>\n<strong>Natural habitat:<\/strong> bodies of freshwater (lakes, streams, and rivers) across Europe, Asia, and Africa.<br \/>\n<strong>Protection status:<\/strong> Near Threatened<br \/>\n<strong>Population: <\/strong>Unknown<br \/>\n<strong>Size: <\/strong>The average male otter\u2019s head and body can reach up to 90cm (36 in); tail 40 cm (16in)<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLife span: <\/strong>perhaps 9-10 years in the wild; have lived to 20 in captivity<br \/>\n<strong>Diet:<\/strong> Fish, birds, frogs, crustaceans, and even small beavers<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPersonality:<\/strong> playful, intelligent, and inquisitive<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFun fact:<\/strong> These guys aren\u2019t afraid to let the crap hit the fan\u2026or rock. Otters are known to mark their territory by leaving sweet-smelling feces on rocks along the water\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10152062979301914.1073741831.190628861913&amp;type=1\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/onetravel\">OneTravel<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otter-world.com\/european-otter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ypte.org.uk\/animal\/otter-eurasian-\/150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptes.org\/?page=123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are around five people in the entire world who don\u2019t love otters, and they\u2019ve probably never seen one. Impress your animal-loving friends with these fast facts about the Eurasian otter. Natural habitat: bodies of freshwater (lakes, streams, and rivers) across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Protection status: Near Threatened Population: Unknown Size: The average male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897733,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions\/98897733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}