Went camping for a night out in the remote Amazon jungle, accompanied by local guides. The next morning we were trekking and heard a strange buzzing and hissing sound. It filled the rainforest and sounded like we stumbled into a witches coven or something. There was loud whooping and whistling, but more than anything - this ominous chorus of sustained droning.
Turned out it was a pack of giant Amazon river otters in the water. These guys get as big as 6 ft. The sound was so freaky and they were bearing their fangs at us trying to intimidate. No doubt they could have ripped us to shreds if they wanted to. I managed to take a short video. After a couple minutes they climbed out of the water and galloped into the jungle. And I mean it when I say galloped. We couldn’t believe how fast they could move on land.
I firmly believe that these are the last animals you would want to come face to face with in all of the Amazon. I would rather face a jaguar than a mob of angry giant river otters.
Went camping for a night out in the remote Amazon jungle, accompanied by local guides. The next morning we were trekking and heard a strange buzzing and hissing sound. It filled the rainforest and sounded like we stumbled into a witches coven or something. There was loud whooping and whistling, but more than anything - this ominous chorus of sustained droning.
Turned out it was a pack of giant Amazon river otters in the water. These guys get as big as 6 ft. The sound was so freaky and they were bearing their fangs at us trying to intimidate. No doubt they could have ripped us to shreds if they wanted to. I managed to take a short video. After a couple minutes they climbed out of the water and galloped into the jungle. And I mean it when I say galloped. We couldn’t believe how fast they could move on land.
I firmly believe that these are the last animals you would want to come face to face with in all of the Amazon. I would rather face a jaguar than a mob of angry giant river otters.
Short Video (OC): https://files.catbox.moe/phsta3.mov
Them mofuckers were NOT fuckin around😭
That does look genuinely scary. Thanks for sharing the video
That’s amazing, simultaneously cute and terrifying
Are all those different noises coming from the otters? That’s so scary
Yes all of them lol. It was a quiet hike until that
Thanks for sharing, that was a cool encounter!
That is a wild experience, closely followed by what just happened when my cats heard that video.