Paradise Park welcomes FOUR cute otter pups

Four cute new otter pups have been welcomed to Paradise Park in Hayle.

Staff have announced that Pippin and Katarni, the Asian Otters which arrived at the park back in April, have four cute otter pups.

Keeper Becky Waite explained "Their first check was on 23rd August with our vet Paul Hall, so now we know that there are three females and one male, and all are doing very well.

"Mum is starting to teach them swim so visitors will increasingly see them out and about playing in their pool."

Becky added: "It was love at first sight for mum Pippin who came from Woburn Safari Park and dad Katarni from Tilgate Nature Centre. Almost immediately they were gathering grass and straw to make a cosy home within the holt, and they now have a wonderful little family."

The Asian Otter is the smallest of the otter species and considered ‘vulnerable’ in the wild.

They communicate in little squeals and are very playful, often rolling around with a pebble in their ‘hands’ or digging around a rock.

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