Aggressive sea otter trying to steal surfers’ boards sought by California wildlife officialsBy David Propper
July 12, 2023
These surfers otter be careful.
California wildlife workers are on the hunt for a combative sea otter that’s frightened surfers and even tried to steal their boards, leaving wildlife experts bewildered and worried.
One video posted on Twitter shows the female otter forcefully ripping a surfboard away from a young man who was paddling in the water off the Santa Cruz shore, and other photos show the otter already lounging on top of another surfboard.
The otter was also caught confronting a woman on a surfboard in recent days, according to another tweet.
The photographer who captured the otter images described one of the encounters he witnessed to KGO that he summed up as “wrestling match.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/aggressive-california-sea-otter-trying-to-steal-surfers-boards-sought-by-wildlife-officials/
