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Judi Lynn

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Thu Dec 1, 2016, 03:22 AM Dec 2016

Friendly otter jumps onto kayak, joins birthday celebration

Friendly otter jumps onto kayak, joins birthday celebration

Updated 12:03 am, Thursday, December 1, 2016

MOSS LANDING, Calif. (AP) — A friendly otter joined a couple celebrating a birthday in Northern California by jumping into one of their kayaks and making itself at home, rolling around and even nibbling on some shoes.

Heather VanNes said Wednesday she and her husband, John Koester, were celebrating his birthday Monday in a slough near Moss Landing and had just gotten in the water when they spotted a raft of otters.

They went by to watch them from a distance of at least 50 feet when one of the otters began swimming toward her husband's kayak and jumped right onto it.

Koester says the otter plopped into the front of the boat, rolled around, scratched his belly and ears and nibbled on rope and his shoes.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Friendly-otter-jumps-onto-kayak-joins-birthday-10646109.php

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Sea otters at Moss Landing, California.



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