{"id":24092,"date":"2019-12-04T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=24092"},"modified":"2019-12-06T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:22:53","slug":"seal-swim-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=24092","title":{"rendered":"Otter swim past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sat at my desk this morning, I noticed some unusual ripples in the bay. My immediate thought was porpoises (nise) but they were in shallower water than I&#8217;ve ever seen porpoises and they moved up and down quicker too. It was only after studying the video that I realised they were otters, probably 4 of them, a family group! 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