According to the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks (GFP), the harvest limit of 30 otters was met Friday around 9:15 a.m. River otters captured in existing traps for the next 24 hours are legal, but ...

The last time I wrote about otters, I stated that sea otters are in my top 10 list of “most appealing adult mammals.” First, they are engagingly cute, especially when floating on the ocean’s surface ...

A North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) wanders through a forest at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Credit: Calli Wise, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center YouTube video: ...

North American river otters, known as cute and playful swimmers, once lived in every major river system in Pennsylvania. But because of development, agriculture and industrialization, otters had ...

River otters really do have more fun. They jostle, belly-slide across ice and snow and toboggan down embankments into water. Splish splash. Few mammals are known to frolic as much as otters do, said ...

Today we meet the most aquatic member of Costa Rica’s weasel family, the neotropical river otter. The neotropical river otter (Lontra longicaudis) is known as the nutria or perro de agua in Spanish.

North American river otters eat, play and defecate in the same place. And their unhealthy habits make them ideal for detecting future health threats in the environment. Kristen Goodhue A North ...

Every spring the skies of south Central Nebraska come alive with the sights and sounds of hundreds of thousands of migrating cranes, geese and other birds stopping over along the Platte River and the ...

WEBVTT ANIMALS FORCED TO EXPAND THEIR RANGE..ARE SHOWING UP IN SOME UN-EXPECTED PLACES. ONE IS A PLAYFUL MEMBER OF THE WEASEL FAMILY.. TURNING UP IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. NEWS 8 NATURALIST JACK ...

North American river otters once lived in every major river system in Pennsylvania. But because of development, otters largely disappeared from the state by the early 1900s. File - A North American ...