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This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters

This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters
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Animal lovers are going crazy over an animal program in Louisiana that allows visitors to get close and personal with otters.

How do you relax after a busy week?

People select their leisure activities carefully, and surely there is a wide variety to choose from. You can hang out at a dog park, go to the beach with your friends or stay at home reading your favorite book. The list is endless.

This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters

There's a preserve in Louisiana where you can swim with otters and hung out with sloths

Barn Hill Preserve in Ethel is allowing its visitors to spend nearly an hour swimming with otters. These species are the tiniest breed of otters globally, and they really love a good swim.

This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters

So, if you're stressed out from your daily work and you want a unique pick-me-up, chilling with these Asian small-clawed otters could be the answer.

They pose for selfies too!

To our surprise, these tiny animals don't seem to mind sharing their bathing pool with humans. If you want to take a selfie at the pool, these 11 pounds of pure adorableness pose extremely well.

This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters

In an interview with Bored Panda, the CEO of Barn Hill Preserve, John "Gabe" Ligon, spoke about these heartwarming once in a lifetime experience:

"We are a federally licensed facility in Ethel, Louisiana. Our otter swims are a very limited experience as we don't provide many. The swim experience includes a tour of the preserve, which includes African servals, red kangaroos, and a climate-controlled sloth exhibit."

This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters

An otter swim and tour costs $154 per person

Although the price might be high, the package includes a tour to the preserve, up-close interaction with other critters, including lynx, pythons, armadillos, and the adorable moment fun-sized otters.

Ligon also talked Bored Panda through the otter swim experience, saying:

This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters

"Guests enter the pool, and the otters are introduced for playtime. If they want to play with enrichment toys on the deck, that's their choice. Our otters are never forced to do anything, the entire experience is completely positive."

"Our otters on exhibit have a large behind-the-scenes privacy house that allows them to enter any time they aren't feeling social."

This Animal Preserve Lets Guests Swim With Adorable Tiny Otters

The Asian small-clawed otter inhabits mangrove swamps and freshwater wetlands in South and Southeast Asia. They live in extended family groups with only the alpha pair breeding; 'offspring from previous years help raise the young.'

Due to continuous habitat loss, water pollution, and hunting in some regions, these otter species have been listed as 'Vulnerable' on the IUCN Red List.