Nyac will be missed, but this video will live on forever!!!

Nyac will still be holding hands with all of us in our hearts!

Awww, that’s sad…I loved that little fuzzy girl.

CBC coverage of Nyac and Milo – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWu5ggvRDSw – Thanks for posting this, Cynthia.

As Cynthia said, the other otter is a male – Milo. The other female otter at the aquarium is Tanu and she is also unrelated to Nyac.

A couple of snippets from the Vancouver Aquarium site:

“Milo is a male sea otter, born in Portugal’s Lisbon Aquarium, August 14, 1999. He’s one of the sea otters featured in the popular YouTube video.”

“Since 2007, a video documenting the playful nature of Nyac and her companion Milo has been seen by over 11 million viewers after it was posted on Youtube.com by Cynthia Holmes, a visitor to the Vancouver Aquarium. Ms. Holmes graciously donated the video to the organization in 2007.”
(Thanks, Cynthia.)

Re: Tanu

“This young sea otter pup was found on her own off the coast of Alaska in mid-July 2004, when she was only a week or two old. She was rescued and taken to the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, where our Marine Mammal Rescue staff travelled to help care for her. The team brought her to her new home in Vancouver to continue her care on August 26th, 2004.”

*sniff sniff*

Goodbye little Nyac.

That little *look – - reach* gets me every time!

Hey folks – I’m the one who filmed this video and posted in on Youtube. Just to clear up something from above, Nyac is a female, and she was holding hands with Milo, an unrelated male in my video. There is another unrelated female otter in Milo’s tank, and he likes to initiate hand-holding with her, too. He’s a lover, that Milo.

I got a chance to feed them some frozen squid snacks this summer, and it was a highlight of my life. I’m very sad about the loss of my favorite otter girl, but I’m happy that she made it through the oil spill and into millions of people’s hearts. I hope that the message of environmental conservation that she tried to send to us all gets through.

Thanks for posting this again, Meg.

This made me soo sad to read. My co-workers are wondering what’s wrong with me

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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

*cries*