We've seen how talented the Oregon Zoo otters can become.

But just like humans must learn to crawl before they can walk, these otters must learn to swim before they can dunk.

And apparently, the process of teaching a baby otter to swim is absolutely adorable.

In a new video released by the Oregon Zoo, a baby otter named Molalla gets a swimming lesson. You see, otters don't know how to swim when they're born, so they have to be taught by their parents. In this compilation, you can see Molalla's mother, Tilly, dragging the youngster into the water and quite literally teaching it how to swim.

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