Meet Our North American River Otters

Calvin, Atticus & Emmett

Calvin, Atticus, and Emmett were all wild caught otters from Louisiana that came to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Calvin arrived as a young adult in 2017, and Atticus and Emmett were brought to the Museum in 2022 as a bonded pair. In Louisiana, and many other states, it is legal to trap and sell otters for their fur. The Museum rescued all four otters from being sold into the fur trade, and they will live out the remainder of their lives in Perkins Wildlife Center & Woods Garden.

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