Otter, Ontario, Canada

The next day after seeing a moose we rented a canoe again hoping to get some better shots of this huge mammal. Moose didn't show up but on our way back we spotted a family of otters. 2 adults and 2 small ones. We started following them but had hard time keeping up with their pace and frequent direction changes. I think they were using different defense techniques treating us as potential danger. At first they were all swimming together, a moment later they split up sending one adult one way and the other one along with the kids in the opposite direction. Amazing. They continued to communicate throughout the entire episode. Eventually we stopped following them as we didn't want to scare them off too much. It was a great experience to interact with these elusive animals. 

Coati, Santa Elena, Costa Rica

Coatimundi. I call them Costarican racoons. They're almost everywhere begging for food sniffing around and standing on their hind legs. We saw them on the roads, in the hotel yards and in the jungle. Very friendly creatures.

The one below was a daily visitor at the place we stayed at in Santa Elena. The place is called Las Orquideas. Very beatifully located right at the edge of a canyon. The owner was feeding this coati every morning with some fruit.

The Chamois (Kozice), Tatra Mountains, Poland

Tatra Mountains is one of my favourite places in Poland. Those miniature Alpes are located in the southern part of the country. In the Tatra National Park you can encounter a few interesting mammal species including brown bear (very rare), groundhog (also rare), deer and the chamois ( known as "kozice" in Polish).

We spotted this small herd of chamois during our trip to "Czerwone Wierchy", a scenic trail connecting four peaks in the Western Tatras.

As the males don't live as part of the herd I believe we saw 4 females and their young. The animals were peacfeully grazing on some grass.