Dr. Chris J. Law

I don't think I would ever want to do that with the wild otter because they will try to eat your face or like bite your face if they could.

They're pure evil.

Oh, I mean, yeah.

So basically everything you said is true.

Probably the worst thing is that they can also be dog killers.

So apparently there were a couple incidents where somebody's dog was just like barking at one of these otters along like the dock or something.

And I guess that otter just got fed up, went up to it and just apparently dragged it down.

And I believe it might have drowned it, but...

Again, this is just through word of mouth, so who knows?

I've heard this a couple of times and this has happened a couple of times.

So it's kind of gnarly.

Oh, so actually a sea otter is much bigger than a North American river otter.

But in California, they don't get that big.

Those are more Alaskan otters.

But they are still much bigger than a little river otter.

Definitely can be pretty vicious if you get too close to them.

Yeah, so actually all other otters are primarily freshwater.

So it's the sea otter that's unique.

It's that oddball that evolved from all the other otters like about 8 to 10 million years ago.

And it went on basically its own evolutionary trajectory.