Click the pic, then click it again for the real size and have a look at its hands and feet... they are amazing little limbs with which s/he can both swim and climb at quick speeds. When I first noticed this little critter it was swimming briskly around in the water near where I was standing. My first thought was that maybe it was a young beaver since it swam similarly, but when it crawled out of the water I realized how small this little critter is. Excluding it's tail, it's not even 7 inches.
