{"id":420506,"date":"2026-02-11T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420506\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:22:07","slug":"otter-ignores-humans-as-it-hunts-on-mudeford-quay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420506\/","title":{"rendered":"Otter ignores humans as it hunts on Mudeford Quay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A plucky otter has been spotted fishing on a quayside, bravely trotting past humans in between hunting for its breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was filmed at Mudeford Quay near Christchurch, Dorset, by Robert Griffiths who saw it eating a fish on the quay wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It continued hunting where it came out onto the path with a crab where I filmed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a part-time fisherman at Mudeford and have seen otters a few times but not as friendly as this &#8211; it was a joy to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plucky otter has been spotted fishing on a quayside, bravely trotting past humans in between hunting for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-420506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}