{"id":1180676,"date":"2026-09-01T12:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1180676\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:55:25","slug":"friends-think-they-see-an-otter-in-the-water-then-they-notice-his-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1180676\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Think They See An Otter In The Water \u2014 Then They Notice His Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-element-index=\"0\">Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/galina.ruban.16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galina Ruban<\/a> was enjoying a day of boating with several companions in an inlet in Jupiter, Florida, when the group noticed an animal in the water. Judging from the furry nose peeking from the surface, they thought at first that it must be an otter.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">Then they saw the animal\u2019s long ears. It was a rabbit, swimming far from shore.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"2\">\u201cHe was in the middle of the inlet,\u201d Ruban later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1711244303436653\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"3\">Ruban, a video producer and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gegeproductions.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GeGe Productions<\/a>, captured footage of what happened next:<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"0\">It\u2019s unclear how the rabbit came to be in the water so far from shore, though some have speculated that he may have fallen from the grasp of a bird of prey.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"1\">Whatever the case, Ruban and her friends worried that he wouldn\u2019t be able to make it out \u2014 so they gave him a free ride to dry ground.<\/p>\n<p data-element-index=\"0\">&#8220;So we saved the little guy,&#8221; Ruban wrote, adding: \u201cI think we got there just in time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Galina Ruban was enjoying a day of boating with several companions in an inlet in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1180677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[1716,320029,77582,70,1715,9097,1713,16,15],"class_list":["post-1180676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-daily-dodo","tag-rabbit-rescues","tag-rabbits","tag-science","tag-standard","tag-stephen-messenger","tag-the-dodo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}