Once the otters cleaned the pond out of fish they turned to the next most abundant food source, the whitetail deer. The hungry otters lurk in the shallow water until an unsuspecting deer, tuckered out from its afternoon of foraging on the luscious food plots in the area, came to the pond for a drink. The deer, until now, had not had any fear of predators coming out of the water, so with her guard down and her legs spread wide she drops her head to take a thirst slaking drink only to have the famished otter grab her by the nose and drag her into the pond. The deer slowly drowns. Once the deer has succumbed to the cruelties only Mother Nature can devise, the otter swims it's meal over to a secluded island away from any other predators and feasts on the deer's still warm flesh as it listens to the bleats of the orphaned fawn soon to die without its mothers guidance.
Moral of the story: the large insurance company that paid to have otters reintroduced in Iowa is seeing the rewards of its investment. They tried alligators and crocodiles but the insurance company realized even with advanced genetic enhancements gators and crocs were snow birds and moved south at the first hint of fall but unlike snow birds they were never to return. It is rumored that the insurance company has invested large sums of money in a deer eating snapping turtle project. The problem was turtle flesh and live female turtles were highly sought after in the Asian markets. The insurance company needed to change the turtle trapping laws in Iowa to protect their genetically enhanced turtle project. After a two year struggle the insurance company got its wish and now turtles are protected. It was the first time in the history of wild animals that Iowa and a large insurance company both benefited from a piece of legislation. Unfortunately, too late, the insurance company realized the folly of their efforts. Try as they might they could never genetically enhance a snapper to make it move fast enough to catch a deer.
Don't look for an increase in otter or bobcat seasons anytime soon.
True story bro.
