Northumberland<\/a> earlier this month. The otter was seen dragging the crab before using its teeth to break the creatures shell.<\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771805529_904_0_Greedy-otter-bites-off-more-than-it-can-chew-after-catching-giant-crab.jpg\")
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An otter eating a crab in the River Coquet, Northumberland(Image: Linda Johnson \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
The 71-year-old photographer said the river was the perfect hunting ground for the otter. Linda said: \u201cIt looks evil, it looks a really nasty thing in the pictures. But they are lovely.<\/p>\n
“It was in the river, a secret location. It\u2019s to stop people coming down and trying to find them.”<\/p>\n
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An otter eating a crab in the River Coquet, Northumberland(Image: Linda Johnson \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
Linda added: \u201cThere does seem to be a lot of otters this year. I hadn\u2019t seen one in 13 years, but then I managed to capture this greedy one. It was Monday, we were down there nice and early from 8.30am. We\u2019ve seen it a couple of times now, it\u2019s just a matter of time of waiting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never knew they ate crabs, I think it\u2019s very hard work to bite through them. Someone said they eat it all, including the shell – I thought they spat it out.”<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s only one otter popping up to you, there aren\u2019t really that many out there. As soon as it finishes one crab, it goes off and fetches another.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographer Linda Johnson couldn’t believe her luck when she snapped the otter swimming in the River Coquet An…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2680,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-440396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-northumberland","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440396","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=440396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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