Image: Eddie, a male sea otter at the Oregon Zoo, practices shooting baskets in pool behind the scenes at the Oregon Zoo
Michael Durham / Courtesy of the Oregon Zoo

TODAY   |  February 19, 2013

Geriatric sea otter stays fit by shooting hoops

Eddie the sea otter began training to put a ball through a plastic hoop last year at the Oregon Zoo to exercise the 15-year-old geriatric otter’s arthritic elbow joints. Now, according to the zoo’s lead sea otter keeper Jenny DeGroot, the playful marine mammal is so good he rarely misses a shot.

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