Baby Otter Gets Lost While Fishing for Food | BBC Parenthood

The Struggle for Survival

• 🎯 The otter cubs often squabble over food, with the largest and most vigorous getting the first meal, leaving the smallest to go hungry.
• 🎣 One small male otter decides to fish for himself, venturing farther out to sea with his mother.

An Unexpected Encounter

• 🦀 He successfully catches something, but it turns out to be a crab, which is easy to catch but not very nutritious.
• ⚠️ The crab bites back, presenting a challenge for the young otter.

Lost and Alone

• 💔 His mother is too busy to notice that he has strayed, and he becomes lost.
• 😥 Over a quarter of otter cubs do not survive their first year, often because they lose contact with their mothers.
• 📣 All the lost cub can do is to keep calling out in hopes of being found.