{"id":2055186,"date":"2018-12-21T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2055186"},"modified":"2022-05-08T22:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:45:01","slug":"giant-river-otters-of-the-three-brothers-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/giant-river-otters-of-the-three-brothers-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant River Otters of The Rio Tres Irmaos (Three Brothers River)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the 1970\u2019s the number of Giant Otters found South America\u00a0 had fallen dramatically. Mainly due to a demand for their pelts, deforestation, and human disturbance. By the time we travelled in 2008 to the Peruvian Amazonian\u00a0rain forest,\u00a0 they had become an endangered species. On that occasion we travelled by canoe up the\u00a0Las Piedras River. To the\u00a0\u00a0Amazon Rainforest Conservation Centre (ARCC) \u00a0in the\u00a0heart of the Jungle. Where we were hoping to see a resident family of Otters. Although we encountered them on a number of occasions, getting close was challenging and unfortunately capturing good images proved very difficult.<\/p>\n

So it was with some trepidation that this year we ventured to Brazil\u2019s\u00a0 Pantanal in search of both\u00a0 Jaguars and the Giant Otter.\u00a0 Staying on the River Cuibia near the confluence of the\u00a0\u00a0Three Brothers River. It wasn\u2019t long before we came across the first of four families that had made this area their home.\u00a0 Fortunately, far from being wary of humans these seemed to be happy to allow us to see and study them at close range. It was an excellent opportunity to find out more about these endangered animals and capture some great images.<\/p>\n

The Giant River Otter (Pteronura Brasiliensis)<\/i><\/h2>\n

One of the rarest mammals in the Pantanal region. The Giant River Otter is\u00a0<\/i>also know locally as the River Wolf or\u00a0Ariranha\u00a0from the Tup\u00ed word meaning water jaguar. Is also one of South America\u2019s top\u00a0carnivores\u00a0and the largest member of the weasel family.<\/p>\n

More about images and details of our encounter with these endangered creatures on our post at https:\/\/adwimages.co.uk\/giant-river-otter\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Giant River Otter Of The Rio Tres Irmaos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our first Giant Otter sighting clearly showing the white patches on the underside of the throat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another Otter sighting clearly showing different white patches from the previous image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the 1970\u2019s the number of Giant Otters found South America\u00a0 had fallen dramatically. Mainly due to a demand for their pelts, deforestation, and human disturbance. By the time we travelled in 2008 to the Peruvian Amazonian\u00a0rain forest,\u00a0 they had become an endangered species. On that occasion we travelled by canoe up the\u00a0Las Piedras River. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1942,"featured_media":2197246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Otters_08-1024x731-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Giant River Otters of The Rio Tres Irmaos (Three Brothers River)","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6984],"tags":[3402,5877,4380],"class_list":["post-2055186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","category-blogs","tag-brazilian-pantanal","tag-giant-river-otter","tag-pantanal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}