{"id":488601,"date":"2026-02-25T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488601\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:36:07","slug":"adorable-otters-enjoy-the-snow-at-maryland-aquarium-during-historic-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488601\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable otters enjoy the snow at Maryland aquarium during historic winter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 A pair of otters slid into their week with an early morning romp in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/24\/us-news\/even-more-snow-expected-to-hit-northeast-cities-already-pummeled-by-record-breaking-blizzard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snow<\/a> 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>A pair of otters slid into their week with an early morning romp in the snow at Baltimore\u2019s National Aquarium. Facebook\/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. Facebook\/National Aquarium<\/p>\n<p>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. Facebook\/National Aquarium<\/p>\n<p>While a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-east-coast-winter-storm-blizzard-c32d60af1f146359664d6688a2dcdada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/23\/us-news\/nyc-blizzard-officially-one-of-the-top-10-biggest-storms-on-record-and-more-snow-is-coming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snow<\/a>.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/941828278243795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook post<\/a>.<\/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":488602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,90940,9097,50112,18379,8640,79,60376,34470,194,201,19818,148929],"class_list":["post-488601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-aquarium","tag-baltimore","tag-blizzard","tag-cute-animals","tag-maryland","tag-science","tag-snow","tag-storms","tag-us-news","tag-wildlife","tag-winter","tag-winter-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488601","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=488601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}