Pardon me if this has been posted before but I found this video pretty interesting. Those otters are water wolves for sure...

Mother Nature at her brutal best. I've seen this on You Tube before, some nitwit wrote in the comments that the otter was actually eating reeds and not the turtles intestines! Smooth, efficient predators, those otter.

They sure are fun to watch.

Wow, those otters sure pack some power....

Watched 4 wolves eat a moose alive once-not much different.
I always thought if otters were the size of wolves,they would be darn deadly predators.

I had no idea they preyed on turtles.

Yepp... intestine-flavored reeds... always one in every crowd. Hah.

They will kill and eat just about anything I have seen them kill and eat geese and swans and have head about them attacking deer while swimming

They are an very efficient predator

I experienced much the same thing and wrote about it.

http://www.trapperman.com/trapperman/TTpaulottersonthebeaverline.html

"When I peeked around the tree, I saw a medium sized dark otter on top of a large old water soaked log chomping on a snapping turtle, and the turtle was still alive. The otter had the turtle upside down on the log and was chewing the turtle’s shell on one side between the front and back leg trying to get access to the tasty meat inside. The otter was mighty respectful of the business end of the turtle and avoided it. Every so often the turtle would slide off the log and the otter would then disappear into the dark water after it. Shortly, the otter would surface, climb onto the log and then pull the turtle up on its round dining table and start crunching again."

Great read there, Paul. I enjoyed that a lot. I haven't had that same experience you and the author did, but I have seen otters prove their carniverous status. Pretty good read you just posted though... hope others take the time to read it.

You sure could tell that wasn't its first rodeo with a snapping turtle. Job one was to get it on its back in the water where it could not defend itself or escape.
It amazes me that the otter could chew through the extremely tough skin. What they lack in sharp teeth, they make up for with brute strength.

Hungry little guy...

Isn't nothing the turtle has done a hundred times over to fish, ducks,etc.

That otter is a pro; it's in total control of the situation.

I've found sun turtles that were eaten by otters but never have I thought that they could defeat a good sized snapper like this. Every day I learn something new.

Cool video. Also it had to be equally as cool to see it happening before your eyes, Paul.