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January 18, 2008

No. 2: Otters holding hands

Otters holding hands, shot at the Vancouver Aquarium, became YouTube's top animal video of all time last year, reeling in 1.5 million viewers in two weeks.

Nyack and Milo -- though they might look like a loving couple -- are actually using a common survival tactic among otters, who by instinct hold hands in the wild to keep them from drifting away from each other. Then again, who's to say that's not love?

The video was actually shot five years ago, but was first posted on the Internet last year, becoming an instant hit.

For Nyack, it wasn't her first brush with celebrity. She made the news for surviving the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

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About Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
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