You don’t know the circumstances surrounding this particular otter - it’s clearly a cub, and if it’s mother has died, or it’s been separated, then the poor little creature will die unless someone takes care of it.
It may even be part of a captive breeding population; we have such here in the U.K., after the otter population was almost wiped out through hunting and pesticides, (read ‘Ring Of Bright Water’), and now otters are even appearing in rivers in city centres, like Bristol and Salisbury.
However, they’re vulnerable to road traffic, and cubs are found orphaned, and are often brought up in human homes before being carefully trained to fend for themselves then returned to the wild.
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