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Pteronura brasiliensis
The Giant Otter or Giant River Otter is one of the most endangered species of South American mammals. I photographed this individual along the Cuiaba River in the northern Pantanal. It was enjoying its meal of a freshly caught fish and squealing with delight - these social animals are very noisy.
Neotropical forested rivers
Spotted on Sep 28, 2010
Submitted on Oct 17, 2011
27 Comments (1–25)
Beautiful !
Wonderful spotting and fantastic photograph, Is as if I was there myself, thank you so much for sharing, AdamRiley
Great picture and spotting Adam; I guess they must feed well to maintain their name....
awesome ariranha picture
great pic!
Fantastic spotting and capture! keep it up man!
Great spotting, great photo!
que foto animal!!!!!!!
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Hermosa fotografía!
Gorgeous spotting and information!
Grest shot!
Fantastic photo.
Excellent capture!!
Beautiful spotting !
Fantastic spotting & picture. You are so lucky, we looked for 3 days (near Puerto Maldonado) and didn't get remotely close to them.
ok, this one should definitely get looked at for a spotting of the day or week...your image quality is fabulous and the subject matter is very neat. I love his little tongue licking his mouth. Very cool.
Absolutely awesome!!
Thanks for the positive comments - it was a fantastic sighting! Unfortunately I don't know the species of fish so can't help with that!
Fantastic capture Adam!
From Wikipedia:
Members of the family Loricariidae are commonly referred to as suckermouth armoured catfishes, armoured catfish, 'plecos' or simply 'plecs'; a shortened form of the species name plecostomus.
These names are used practically interchangeably when referring to the Loricariidae. The name "Plecostomus" and its shortened forms have become synonymous with the Loricariidae in general, since Plecostomus plecostomus (now called Hypostomus plecostomus) was one of the first species imported into the fishkeeping hobby. This can cause some confusion as some unrelated fish may also be called plecostomus, such as the "Borneo Plecostomus", which are actually balitorid fishes.
Definitely a spotting of the day--it's wonderful.
I thought it looked like something in the "Plecostomus" family. :-D
future sotting of the day perhaps
The fish seems to be a "Cascudo", a Loricariidae, Order Siluriformes. That name means, in portuguese, "shelled", for its hard skin, covered with bony plates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loricariida...
a piece of art, a wonderful spot and great capture!