These Giant Otters Dance in the Amazon Rainforest!
Giant Otters in South America have a unique behaviour. A family uses latrines, which are a kind of collective bathroom. It serves to mark the territory with its characteristic smell. They do this with a kind of funny dancing. They mostly use their feet for it, but also the whole body and tail is used.
Scent-marking is a social thing. It is one of the ways that giant otters communicate. It helps groups to organise the limits of their territories along the rivers and lakes.
Encounters between rival groups often end in noisy fights. The territories of the groups measure a linear average of 10 km along water bodies and the banks are scent-marked daily by the members of the group. During the rainy season, when the level of the river rises, territories can increase up to 3 times or more.
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