Otter Cub Trio is Acutely Adorable



These three Asian small-clawed otter cubs were born in September at Newquay Zoo in the U.K. The trio joins a group of 19 other otters at the facility. Zoo Director Stewart Muir said,

“The cubs are impossibly cute. Asian small-clawed otters are incredibly social animals compared with other otter species, so visitors will be able to watch how the cubs’ siblings play an active role in teaching them how to cope in the strange new world outside the nest."

Asian small-clawed otters are the smallest otter species in the world and are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to habitat destruction, water pollution and over fishing in their native Southeast Asia. The IUCN estimates that the population of the species has been reduced by up to 30% in the past 30 years.

Read more about the otters and see an additional photo at Zooborns.

Image: Newquay Zoo

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Kinda funny how people are looking ( staring ) at the radio as if it was a television. I wonder how many times some one said to get out of the way, like when some one blocks your view of the TV. I can imagine my Dad, who regularly said not to sit so close to the TV because it will damage my eyes ( yes, this was years and years ago ) telling me not to sit so close to the radio for some similar reason.
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Ten years or so ago, I spent nights working by myself in a little room running printers and things for the company I still work for. I had limited radio reception and ended up getting hooked on old radio shows as one of the few stations I could get carried the syndicated "When Radio Was" show that replayed a lot of great stuff from the 40's & 50's. A lot of the comedy was just brilliantly written and hearing some of the old commercials that are included is kind of fascinating. I still listen every weekend.
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It's not on the air any more, but radio theatre isn't entirely dead. The Atlanta Radio Theatre Co. and some others still produce either re-productions of classic shows or original work, presented either live (often at science fiction conventions) or recorded (CD's / MP3's or downloads). And the reason is that radio theatre is still a wonderful medium for sparking the audience's imaginations for nearly no production money.
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