Splash, a 2-year-old Asian small-clawed otter from Florida, has joined search and rescue teams as the nation’s first trained otter assisting in locating missing persons in bodies of water. | NBC 7 San Diego

At the zoo, a little girl was happily playing with an otter, petting it and laughing — a heartwarming scene. But suddenly, a zookeeper told her parents, “You need to take your daughter to a doctor immediately.” 😨😱 The girl had been feeding and playing with animals all day. At the otter enclosure, she stroked the otter, which pressed against her knee and twitched its whiskers. Then the otter grew restless, circling, tapping its paws, and whimpering. “She’s probably just tired,” her father said.