
ANI030-00034
An endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) surveys the surface of the Pixaim River in the Pantanal. This otter is from a family of seven adults which has been habituated over the years by tourists feeding them fish from their boats.
Keywords
- Aquatic
- Brazil
- Close-up
- endangered
- federally endangered
- Giant
- mammal
- Marsh
- Otter
- Pantanal
- Predation
- Pternoura
- Pteronura brasiliensis
- rare
- River
- South America
- Swim
- Water
- Wetland
- wildlife
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