The dominant female Giant River Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) smells the area before she defaecates into the communal latrine, River Piquiri, Northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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The dominant female Giant River Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) smells the area before she defaecates into the communal latrine, River Piquiri, Northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil
After defaecating and/or urinating, she will then puddle the ground with her feet, and roll in the mixture of sand, urine and faeces: all part of scent-marking territorial behaviour