Yesterday, I watched a northern river otter munch on a large-scaled sucker.
The Kootenay Lake website offers more pictures of local River Otters
I had failed to spot this delight on my own. Standing beside me, Derek Kite wondered about the animal on a distant dock; I wondered what he was talking about.
Now, it is interesting that the otter had started eating at the fish’s tail. Birds seem to do things the other way around and start with the head. Such bird behaviour is shown on my postings, Head first, and Kestrel Bonanza. Indeed, one commentator noted that birds eat the brains first because eating brains is like, “eating a cheesecake followed by a box of sugar donuts.”
A check of images online shows the otter to be capricious on this point, it seems to start at whichever end is handy.
This otter is eating a rather large sucker tail first.
