In two incidents, women injured by repeated otter bites while swimming.
River otters are so cute that it’s easy to overlook their bad behavior.
“They were all coming for me,” she said. “It seemed rather orchestrated. And as soon as I was out of there, they seemed happy to bob along, go on their way.” Bleeding and panicked, she sought safety by swimming to a nearby paddleboarder. “I’m sorry,” she told the man, “but I’m coming up.” A more vicious otter attack made national headlines earlier this week when three women were bitten while inner tubing on Montana’s Jefferson River. Submerged in water after their inner tube burst, one woman suffered multiple lacerations on her hands, arms, legs, and backside and needed emergency helicopter evacuation. Another woman received injuries to her face, ears, arms, hands, legs, thighs and ankle.
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