{"id":486971,"date":"2026-02-24T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:48:10","slug":"otters-play-in-snowy-maryland-during-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486971\/","title":{"rendered":"Otters play in snowy Maryland during winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 A pair of otters slid into their week with an early morning romp in the snow at Baltimore\u2019s National Aquarium. <\/p>\n<p>Security cameras captured the fun around 7 a.m. at the aquarium, which described the otters as \u201crolling, sliding and romping through the snow\u201d on an outside deck near the city\u2019s Inner Harbor. <\/p>\n<p>While a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-east-coast-winter-storm-blizzard-c32d60af1f146359664d6688a2dcdada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nor\u2019easter blasted much of the Northeast<\/a>, one of the visiting otters at the aquarium rolled on its back on the snowy deck before scampering into a running start to slide across the snow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarylanders may have been fretting about the snow, but the otters visiting our Harbor Wetland exhibit were not!\u201d the aquarium wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Otters are common in Maryland\u2019s rivers, marshes and tidal areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 A pair of otters slid into their week with an early morning romp in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,9097,793,8640,8641,2031,79,795,2986,201],"class_list":["post-486971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-baltimore","tag-general-news","tag-maryland","tag-md-state-wire","tag-oddities","tag-science","tag-u-s-news","tag-weather","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}