LA Zoo Sends Giant Otter to Breeding Program in Argentina

The Los Angeles Zoo has become the first zoo in the United States to send a giant otter to a special breeding program in Argentina to reintroduce the species in a region where it has gone extinct, zoo officials announced May 29. Rosario, an 8-year-old female giant otter from the L.A. Zoo, and her male partner, a giant otter from a European zoo, are the third breeding pair in the program, led by Rewilding Argentina; the government of Corrientes, Argentina; and Argentina’s National Parks Administration. Their offspring will be candidates for release into the wild in Iberá National Park in northeast Argentina....