Other Animal (But Non-Buggy) Crackers

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Expensive Taste

In Dispute: Sea otter, newly released after $50K Exxon Valdez (or other oil spill) clean-up, is immediately eaten by an orca (killer whale).

This is a lovely piece of irony. There's no evidence that it actually happened, at least not in the form the story suggests, with a crowd of onlookers cheering for the expensively saved otter, only to watch in shock and horror as it becomes a $50,000 entree.

On the other hand, otters and other smallish marine mammals are prey items for a number of larger predators (though they are reportedly a very unusual prey item for orcas---not enough blubber to be appealing); it's to be expected that some of those saved from an oil spill will, sooner or later, take their place in the food chain. To paraphrase a post by Derek Tearne, think of it as $50,000 toward the orcas.