Beloved Otto the Otter Dies After Eating Human Food Tossed Into Enclosure by Visitor

Beloved Otto the Otter Dies After Eating Human Food Tossed Into Enclosure by Visitor
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Despite clear warnings not to feed the animals at a Tennessee nature park, human food is the suspected cause of this “cheerful creature’s” death.

If you have visited Bays Mountain Park before the end of May and glimpsed in at the otter habitat, you would have seen a young brown river otter, named Otto, entertaining the park’s visitors.