Otters have lavatory habits. They always poop in selected places, and nowhere else.
Maybe they have something to say about the visitors to Tynemouth zoo.

We had an oriental otter escape from our local zoo, and it was swimming between offshore islands quite freely for several weeks before recapture. Freshwater otter, too.
Why would they need help from norsemen to find England? You can see it from France!


Sounds like folklore to me.
'He took some green alligators, and long-necked geese,....'
Why?