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Harvey and Hazel in the Wildlife and Species Conservation Center: “They will stay with us for a year”
Photo: Katharina Erdmann/dpa
Two baby otters that were recently found without their mother have settled in well at a wildlife station in the Pinneberg district of Schleswig-Holstein.
“They have a keen appetite, are growing and gaining weight,” said Katharina Erdmann from the wildlife and species conservation center in Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop.
Harvey and Hazel – as they are called – now weigh around 900 grams.
The male and female, presumably siblings, are said to be around seven weeks old.
A walker found the puppies alone on a path in Niebüll in the Nordfriesland district.
There they would have shouted loudly for hours.
“You will stay with us for a year,” Erdmann reported.
In the station, which is financed by donations, they are supposed to learn species-appropriate behavior so that they can be released back into the wild.
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