'Otters on the run': NEW Zoo Adventure Park provides new video amid search for runaway otters 'Louie Ophelia'
Mar 26, 2025
SUAMICO, Wis. (WFRV) - A new chapter has been written as the search for two otters who escaped their habitat at the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park and are on the loose continues.
NEW Zoo & Adventure Park posted an update on Wednesday morning, saying they are continuing efforts to retrieve Louie
and Opheila, who went missing on Thursday, March 20, after they left their habitat through a breach in buried fencing.
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In the video above, provided by NEW Zoo & Adventure Park, one of the otters is seen repeatedly in the same area showing interest in one of the traps designed to catch them and return them to their habitat.
Unfortunately, the post added that raccoons in the area have made things difficult, setting off one of the traps before an otter tried to enter it. Officials now have 'raccoon proof' traps to increase success rates.
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Anybody with information and/or photos/videos is asked to contact the NEW Zoo via social media or any other method of contact.
Local 5 will continue its updates on 'Ottergate' as we get more information. ...read more read less