WATCH: Asian Small-Clawed Otters from National Zoo Play Piano, Better Than an Orangutan Plays the Xylophone?

If you put a thousand otters in a room and give them a keyboard, one is bound to write Beethoven.

Perhaps the process of creating music extends further than us, and maybe the next great composer won't even have thumbs.

A family of Asian small-clawed otters have taken to the keyboard as part of the National Zoo's animal enrichment program (completely serious with this one).

If you can believe it, the otters have their own keyboard and are seemingly more technical than your normal novice. Their latest composition is quite, well, idiosyncratic.

Precision and delicacy are a part of their stylistic preferences as bold avant-garde composers.

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