For many people, a trip to the zoo is a chance to watch playful otters dart through the water and chatter with one another.

Veterinary researchers at Adelaide University in Australia tracked the behavior of six captive otters at the local zoo. These otters, ranging from young adults to middle-aged, are housed in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sea otter enjoyed whirling around her new habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo on Wednesday, November 19, after the zoo welcomed sea ...

Zoo visitors can now say, "Hello!" to sea otters for the very first time at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Kevin and Chloe, two southern sea otters, arrived at the Cincinnati Zoo on Nov. 17, ...

The Cincinnati Zoo is welcoming a new species of otters for the first time. On Tuesday, the zoo announced that Southern sea otters Chloe and Kevin had arrived and can be seen by the public. Sign up ...

Resident sea otters at Oregon Zoo enjoyed a mountain of ice in their habitat, making for the “cutest raw bar in town,” ...

A zoo has introduced two new Asian short-clawed otters in the hope that they will eventually breed. A huge database is used by zoos around the world to track animals and support conservation breeding ...

Co-author Paige Klingner said the findings "challenge assumptions" that human visitors always negatively impact zoo animals. ...

Research involving North American river otters based at Monroe County’s Seneca Park Zoo has concluded the fascinating animals can visually discriminate between two-dimensional objects and detect ...

The zoo shared that they have welcomed three otter pups, born on August 25, to mom Elbe and dad Jilin. The three brothers are Asian small-clawed otters, a vulnerable species according to the IUCN Red ...