{"id":19783,"date":"2025-10-30T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19783\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:14:30","slug":"otter-crossing-playful-animals-spotted-at-presque-isle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19783\/","title":{"rendered":"Otter Crossing: Playful Animals Spotted at Presque Isle | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"OTTER 1.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>North American river otters were spotted crossing a road at Presque Isle State Park.<\/p>\n<p>The park posted on Facebook Wednesday night that these images were taken by a park employee.<\/p>\n<p>These playful animals usually stay in ponds and marshes but sometimes travel for food or mates.<\/p>\n<p>Park officials remind drivers to stick to the 25 mph speed limit to protect otters, other wildlife, and visitors. Slowing down helps everyone enjoy the park safely.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you\u2019re visiting, keep an eye out and drive carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North American river otters were spotted crossing a road at Presque Isle State Park. The park posted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13819,136,138,137,13818,13820,13816,13817],"class_list":{"0":"post-19783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-conservation","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-explorepa","13":"tag-presque-isle","14":"tag-presque-isle-state-park","15":"tag-river-otters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}