Baby otters swim in the tub

Kevin Wendy Yates of Valley Center, CA, run Nurtured By Nature a nonprofit organization to foster healing relationships between children and animals. These three baby Asian smallclawed otters are about nine weeks old, and since baby otters have to learn how to swim, the Yates put them in the tub with a little water at first, then make it a little deeper each time until they get more and more comfortable with swimming. This is their fourth time in the water since they were