{"id":23332,"date":"2012-10-22T00:32:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=23332"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:31:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:31:40","slug":"giant-otters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/giant-otters\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Otters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of our trip to Ecuador this year was seeing a family of Giant Otters. We were fortunate enough to see them on 3 separate occasions and at one point floated in our canoe about 10 yards from them as they played and fed (all behind foliage however). I did manage to capture some photos and a video from the encounters:<\/p>\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 571px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-wtTKKHv\/1\/M\/DSC1551edited-1-M.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-wtTKKHv\/1\/M\/DSC1551edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-wtTKKHv\/1\/M\/DSC1551edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-wtTKKHv\/1\/M\/DSC1551edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-wtTKKHv\/1\/M\/DSC1551edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-wtTKKHv\/1\/M\/DSC1551edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-wtTKKHv\/1\/M\/DSC1551edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Hidden Otter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 610px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-sGsm6N3\/1\/M\/DSC1657edited-1-M.jpg\" 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https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-sGsm6N3\/1\/M\/DSC1657edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-sGsm6N3\/1\/M\/DSC1657edited-1-M.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Giant Otter Family<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 610px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusedonnature.com\/Trips\/Ecuador-2012\/i-JjQVpZk\/1\/M\/DSC1344edited-1-M.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" 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wp-caption-text\">Giant Otters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bchtQ4W4aIo?list=PL6CF17870CB0CEBA1&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"613\" height=\"345\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of our trip to Ecuador this year was seeing a family of Giant Otters. We were fortunate enough to see them on 3 separate occasions and at one point floated in our canoe about 10 yards from them as they played and fed (all behind foliage however). I did manage to capture some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":2145611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1264,1265],"class_list":["post-23332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-giant-otter","tag-napo-wildlife-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332","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\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}