Zoo Atlanta is home to three male otters, Larry, Curly and Moe. They were captive born and are on loan from the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bronx, New York. Otters are very intelligent and curious animals. When they aren't sleeping, they are playing, swimming or digging. Small-clawed otters reside in the rain forests of southeast Asia where they live in family groups of four to 12 animals.
Otters can have two litters of pups a year.
The pups don't learn to swim until they are two months old. In the wild, their main diet is fish, crabs, frogs, mollusks and crayfish. The otters at Zoo Atlanta eat fish commercially prepared meat diet for carnivores, peanuts, crickets, meal worms, sweet potatoes, carrots and collards. The otters are exhibited with the muntjac deer family. Although these animals habitats would overlap naturally in the wild, this combination of animals is a first for a North American zoo.