Otters 1, People 0

I love when animals outsmart people. This story is a wonderful example.

Apparently, the federal government decided that otters needed to be banned from a part of the California coast. So they were doing things like catching the otters and flying them far away. They picked a place with all of the qualities an otter would want. They even put them in a place where they'd have to cross deep water that would be a tough swim for them to get home, but the otters hadn't signed off on this deal.

So the otters just swam back to their original home. Some swam 200 miles to get there.

Sadly, some otters couldn't take the stress of the relocations, but I guess that's not surprising. The poor things were kidnapped!

Anyhow, this effort to take the natural inhabitants of an area away for the benefit of business didn't work. That makes me smile.

Leave nature alone. I especially love the statement in the article about the ability of the otters to get back home--"it seemed improbable that they had the navigation skills to do it." Why do we think we know so much? How can we tell what an otter can do? Such arrogance.

So, my final statement on this is: you go, otters!