Calm Down Man
A sea otter is seen in Morro Bay, California - an important conservation site for the creatures.
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
Delish!
Tazo was rescued after being orphaned in Alaska in 2010. Now, the northern sea otter swims happily in the pool at the New York Aquarium.
(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)
Birthday treats
Two-year-old Minnie the otter gulps down a birthday treat of salmon pie and fish blancmange wih her mum, Flo, as she celebrates her second birthday at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre, Gloucestershire.
What you lookin' at?
Ollie the otter was stranded and rescued off of Santa Cruz when she was a few weeks old.
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Sleepy time
Ollie uses mammalogist Caitlin Dixon's boots as a pillow while taking a nap at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Kissing Otters
Two cubs celebrate their first birthday at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire.
High Five
Kit, a rescued 11-week-old southern sea otter, plays in his tank in Monterey, California.
(AP Photo/The Monterey County Herald, Orville Myers)
Play Group
Otters are really sociable creatures, often referred to as party animals (geddit?)
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Buddy up
Otters love each other's company.
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Newborns
An asian short claw otter cub looks over the edge of an incubator with his siblings at the sealife zoo in Oberhausen, western Germany.
(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Hello there
An otter from Blair Drummond Safari Park in Britain approaches a snowman built by staff.
Floating away
A couple of sea otters sit on a float in the Cordova, Alaska boat harbour.
(AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
Summer weather
As the heat wave starts in London, an otter keeps cool with a frozen fish ice lolly in Battersea Park Children's Zoo.
Just chillin'
A sea otter floats on the waters of Glacier Bay in Alaska with her baby resting on top of her. Sea otters love to float on the surface, lying on their backs in a posture of serene repose.
Photo: The Canadian Press/Chuck Stoody
Oh, wise one
Oriental small-clawed otters during the London Zoo annual stocktake photocall in which every bird, beast, bug and fish are counted.
They don't seem bothered much.
Awww
An otter pub just a few days after being born in Veszprem, 108 kilometres southwest of Budapest, Hungary.
(AP Photo/MTI, Lajos Nagy)
What's mine is yours...
One Asian short crawl otters gets a piece of fish at the Sea Life Centre in Timmendorfer Strand at the Baltic Sea, northern Germany, as the other looks on. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
Two by two
Darrah, a male river otter and female river otter Chelsea sun themselves after a swim during a heatwave at Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachussets.
(AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Baby baby
Vrnwy and Lottie were just 10 and 14 weeks old when their mother was killed by a car in Hampshire.
Swimming Lessons
Abby, an otter cub, floats on her back in a small pool at a nursery at Sea World in San Diego.
(AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
Playing for the camera
Mother Russian sea otter Meel floats on water as she holds her newly-born baby during a press preview at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo.
(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
BIG NEWS DAY
Olive proves that she is the news of today. She knew about our Friday slideshows.
(AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Do not disturb
(AP Photo/Laura Rauch-File)
OMG
A Spotted Necked Otter plays with a feather at Uganda Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe, Uganda.
(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Baby Talk
A mother Asian Small-Clawed Otter plays with one of her pups at the Jungle World exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in New York.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
It's just me and you, babe
Two North American River Otters buddy up after a swim as they mug for the camera at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kansas.
(AP Photo/The Garden City Telegram, Laurie Sisk)
Is this pose ok?
A sea otter looks out from behind a rock in its exhibit at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island, New York.
(AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
Fishy business
Harry the otter feels for sprats inside his watermelon.
You had to be there
An otter enjoys a chuckle. Well we're not sure but it looks like he's laughing, right?
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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