Osaka aquarium celebrates its sea otter's 20th birthday with a barrage of adorable tweets

In human terms, that makes the sea otter 80 years old.
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This might be one of the cutest tweetstorms ever.

The Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in Japan decided to celebrate its sea otter's milestone 20th birthday on Tuesday with a stream of pictures of the venerable old lady.

In human terms, crossing 20 makes the sea otter, named Pata, equivalent to an 80-year-old, the Kaiyukan said in a blog post.


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It captioned this one "bed head":

The aquarium also posted a bunch of super cute #tbt pics.


Pata celebrated her big day with a "cake" made of fruit in ice.

The Osaka aquarium is one of the largest public aquariums in the world, housing some 29,000 animals, according to its website.


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Victoria Ho is Mashable's Asia Editor, based in Singapore. She previously reported on news and tech at The Business Times, TechCrunch and ZDNet. When she isn't writing, she's making music with her band

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