Pictures of a Giant Otter Eating a Watermelon

December 8, 2012 12:58 PM

Ottermelon So tasteless he cries.
posted by zscore (29 comments total)

Grumpy Cat may be in for some competition.
posted by brennen at 1:01 PM on December 8, 2012 [5 favorites]

He looks like he's wearing little rubber gloves.
posted by shelleycat at 1:17 PM on December 8, 2012 [2 favorites]

Otters are jerks. Just ask shellfish. This otter deserves to cry for all the bad things he's done. But, despite the tears, he will show no true repentance.
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:24 PM on December 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

Do you know why the clam got grounded?

For being shellfish.
posted by sciurus at 1:34 PM on December 8, 2012 [4 favorites]

I love the last picture. It looks like he's going to spit the watermelon back out.
posted by Solomon at 1:37 PM on December 8, 2012 [3 favorites]

That last picture just totally made my day.
posted by xedrik at 1:44 PM on December 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

For being shellfish.
MeFi's own Sean Connery?
posted by xedrik at 1:45 PM on December 8, 2012 [4 favorites]

I just want to touch his lil ears.
posted by isopraxis at 1:47 PM on December 8, 2012

I just want to touch his lil ears.

I wouldn't get my hand too close to his mouth, if you know what I mean.
posted by tommasz at 1:53 PM on December 8, 2012

Funny, I thought they only had that expression while ripping apart human flesh.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 2:02 PM on December 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

but, but, otters are cute, Christmassy and play in jugbands. They are not evil at all.
posted by dougzilla at 2:05 PM on December 8, 2012 [8 favorites]

I dunno, my face looks a lot like that if I eat watermelon rind.
posted by Malor at 2:07 PM on December 8, 2012

You know how people say tomatoes used to be better before factory farming? Was there ever a time when watermelon was actually good.

Lil guy reminds me of the drawings of the stoats from Wind of the Willows, all squinty eyes and fangs.
posted by Ad hominem at 2:10 PM on December 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

Must... Eat... The... (Eww!) Whole... Thing... Can't stop now, I might never get food again!
posted by Kevin Street at 2:15 PM on December 8, 2012

Isn't that how every Bond villain looks after his evil plans are foiled?
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 2:42 PM on December 8, 2012

In that first photo, he's seems to be yelling at another otter to stop pooping in front of him while he's "trying to eat over here!"

The last photo is his reaction to the other otter eating watermelon without first washing his paws.
posted by orme at 2:44 PM on December 8, 2012 [2 favorites]

They are not evil at all

Giant otters are called River Wolves in Spanish. Tells you what you need to know.
posted by jontyjago at 3:57 PM on December 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

I swam with a giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis). It was awesome. He liked to be dragged through the water around and around and around, by a finger hooked just behind his canine teeth.
posted by The otter lady at 5:02 PM on December 8, 2012 [6 favorites]

Are you kidding???
posted by notreally at 5:19 PM on December 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

No, I'm not kidding.
posted by The otter lady at 5:37 PM on December 8, 2012 [3 favorites]

but, but, otters are cute, Christmassy and play in jugbands. They are not evil at all.

Hate to break it to you, but, yeah, they really, really are.
posted by Sys Rq at 5:46 PM on December 8, 2012 [2 favorites]

I once saw a giant otter drown a caiman. Giant otters are kind of terrifying.
posted by ChuraChura at 6:11 PM on December 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

Well, *I* saw an otter shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die. And steal his abalone.
posted by briank at 6:48 PM on December 8, 2012 [14 favorites]

When I was a kid we once spent Christmas at my aunt's place in Idaho. She had a volcanically heated pool and one of the local river otters had made it his winter residence. He seemed to love play in the water, jump out to dive into a snowbank and throw snow everywhere and then back into the water.
posted by the_artificer at 7:36 PM on December 8, 2012

@Sys Rq
Dude! those are some nasty otters.
posted by dougzilla at 8:37 PM on December 8, 2012

Ad hominem: "You know how people say tomatoes used to be better before factory farming? Was there ever a time when watermelon was actually good. "

Yes. In the summer in Central Asia. I think I ate more watermelon in two months than I had consumed my entire life previously.
posted by Gordafarin at 2:22 AM on December 9, 2012

The black circles around his eyes make him look like Pope Benedict.
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:06 AM on December 9, 2012

That last photo was fantastic. It made Mrs A's morning.
posted by arcticseal at 9:51 AM on December 9, 2012

Have you people never grown watermelon? Watermelon is fucking delicious.

Also you can spit the seeds at people.
posted by brennen at 2:52 PM on December 9, 2012 [2 favorites]