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Official portrait
Oct. 5th, 2006 04:34 amTaken last night, the official portrait of Summer 2006; Slick (rear), and Mystery Male.
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My new camera was expensive, but as far as I'm concerned, it just paid for itself with this one picture! Worth every penny–no way my old digital camera could have taken a quality low-light image like this.
Last night, I also got close-up photos of the otters' lower teeth so you can finally see how different/individual they are.
Young Slick (left) is 4 years old, so he still has all his lower incisors, and his canine teeth are sharp. Mystery Male is a few years older; he has only one lower (right) canine tooth, and he's minus most of his lower incisors, too.
For most of this summer, the only otter I would ever see was this one with the missing canine. I also confirmed with scats that there really was only one otter in residence during that time. For weeks, sharptooth Slick simply wasn't here...
click image to enlarge
My new camera was expensive, but as far as I'm concerned, it just paid for itself with this one picture! Worth every penny–no way my old digital camera could have taken a quality low-light image like this.
Last night, I also got close-up photos of the otters' lower teeth so you can finally see how different/individual they are.
Young Slick (left) is 4 years old, so he still has all his lower incisors, and his canine teeth are sharp. Mystery Male is a few years older; he has only one lower (right) canine tooth, and he's minus most of his lower incisors, too.
For most of this summer, the only otter I would ever see was this one with the missing canine. I also confirmed with scats that there really was only one otter in residence during that time. For weeks, sharptooth Slick simply wasn't here...
