‘Succession’ star Crystal Finn attacked by otters: ‘The bites really hurt’
nypost.comthe San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday. “I started looking around and yelling out and (the otters) popped up right in front of me.
Then they dove down and started going at me again.”Although Finn isn’t sure why she was assaulted, she thinks it may have been a mother protecting her offspring, as she spotted three of them just moments after being bitten.
While she tried to escape to the shore, the otters “dove back down” and began to bite her again. She fought them off with her feet and took shelter on a rock.“I could see the bites on my legs and knew I had been bitten on my butt — that one was the worst, but I couldn’t see it,” Finn told the outlet. “The bites really hurt.”Finn — who played Lauren Pawson in the Season 4 “America Decides” episode of “Succession” — was treated at the Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee.Otter bites are typically rare, with only 59 documented attacks worldwide since 1875, according to the Daily Montanan.
Otter behavior expert Heide Island, a professor at Pacific University in Oregon, noted to the outlet that the animal can sometimes become aggressive if it’s trying to protect its area, children or food.And, in June and July, otter moms tend to teach their pups how to fend for themselves, including how to swim.
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