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A family of nine plucky otters take on two JAGUARS – leaving the big cats heading home with their tails between their legs. Fábio Mitsuka Paschoal, from Mato Grosso, Brazil, was looking for wildlife on July 21 in the Pantanal of Caceres, a remote sector of the world's largest tropical wetland, along the Paraguay River. He received an interesting radio call about jaguars and otters interacting nearby, so quickly rushed to the scene. There, Fábio discovered a moment he had to capture: the nine otters bobbing up and down in the water, standing their ground as the two jaguars snarled at them just a few feet away. The unique movement is known as ‘periscoping,’ and combined with sharp, noisy barks and aggressive lunges, the behavior signals to any threat that the pack is united and ready to defend their territory.

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00:00Folks, this is really cool.
00:03It's not every day that you see that.
00:07I was guiding a group of guests in the northern Pantanal in the Paraguay.
00:11We really got a radio telling that it was jaguars and giant otters that they were interacting.
00:17So we ran into this point when we got there.
00:21The jaguars were inside the woods and the giant otters were all agitating.
00:26They make a lot of calls, a lot of alarm calls and noises.
00:29One of the jaguars started to get out of the woods to face the giant otters.
00:36And when he did that, the giant otters started to go up and down and scream really loud.
00:47You can see that the jaguar is the biggest predator that we have here.
00:52But you can see that it is afraid of the otters.
00:54The jaguar stepped back and it was awesome.
01:00It was something that is very unique.
01:03Something that doesn't happen very often.
01:10It's common to see jaguars, it's common to see giant otters in the northern Pantanal.
01:16But to see them together, interacting with this whole bunch of action, is something that you don't see every day.
01:25That's a right to see them who have found on our own.
01:25It's definitely been able to see it right now.
01:25But you can see it's not a lot of reasons.
01:25I'm so excited.
01:25It's the only one or two.
01:26It's not a lot of reasons.

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