![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/woman-savaged-by-vicious-and-relentless-otter-which-bit-off-half-of-her-ear/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Screen-Shot-2023-08-14-at-125221.jpg&description=Jen Royce had been celebrating her birthday with a wild swim in Montana's Jefferson River when a vicious otter fell upon her and her friends. It took turns savaging the shocked friends as they desperately tried to get out the river A woman was left with her face shredded and a chunk of her ear bitten off when a savage otter attacked her and her friends. Jen Royce, 37, needed five hours of surgeries after the attack in Montana's Jefferson River. The Bozeman resident had been celebrating her birthday swimming in the river with a couple of friends. Describing the moment it first attacked she said: "I saw one otter right behind my friend before it attacked. I didn't even have a chance to get the words 'there is an otter behind you' out of me before it attacked her." Detailing the attack on social media, she described the otter as "vicious and relentless." She said: "It bit my face in several places, both of my ears, my arms, my hands, my legs, my thighs, and my ankle. My friends were bit on the hands and on their bottoms. One friend's thumb was SHREDDED and she has bite marks all over her body as well." For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US. Otter attacks are incredibly rare with a 2016 study reporting that only 44 cases of such attacks have been recorded worldwide since 1875. The trio had been floating in the deep part of the river when the otter attacked. It took turns attacking each of them, sending the three friends scattering in different directions. Two of the friends ended up on opposite banks of the river but one was stuck on a rock in the middle of the river, scared of trying to make it to safety in case the otter attacked again. Jen wrote: "I was covered in blood and it just kept pouring out from my face and nose. It was cold. We were wet. It was dark. We had no real 'good' visual on each other due to distance. All we could do was scream and call out to one another. To anyone. But we were just so damn far a){kind=link}
Jen Royce had been celebrating her birthday with a wild swim in Montana’s Jefferson River when a vicious otter fell upon her and her friends. It took turns savaging the shocked friends as they desperately tried to get out the river
A woman was left with her face shredded and a chunk of her ear bitten off when a savage otter attacked her and her friends.
Jen Royce, 37, needed five hours of surgeries after the attack in Montana’s Jefferson River.
The Bozeman resident had been celebrating her birthday swimming in the river with a couple of friends. Describing the moment it first attacked she said: “I saw one otter right behind my friend before it attacked. I didn’t even have a chance to get the words ‘there is an otter behind you’ out of me before it attacked her.”
Detailing the attack on social media, she described the otter as “vicious and relentless.” She said: “It bit my face in several places, both of my ears, my arms, my hands, my legs, my thighs, and my ankle. My friends were bit on the hands and on their bottoms. One friend’s thumb was SHREDDED and she has bite marks all over her body as well.”