The 16ft-long pond in Nige Cooper's garden is where he dotes on his sturgeon, goldfish and rescued koi carp and delights in ...

With the demise of the wolverine (Gulo luscus Linnaeus) in the Adirondacks in the late 1700’s or early 1800’s, the river otter became the region’s largest member of the weasel family. Adults weigh 5.4 ...

River otters are smaller than sea otters in both length and weight. Sea otters have a different diet from river otters, given their habitat and saltwater location. Additionally, river otters have a ...

Unmanaged river channels such as this, often containing large woody debris, are now a rarity in the county. They provide ideal otter habitat and there are occasional sightings of them here. Also look ...

The North American river otter, a charismatic resident of our rivers and lakes, was once a common sighting across the country ...

Depending on its habitat, the diet of an otter can vary ... For the North American river otter, fish, crayfish, frogs and turtles are on the menu, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation ...

American river otters were ubiquitous in most waterways ... They were gone by the early 1900s — a casualty of fur trapping and habitat destruction. In the 1980s, there were focused ...

The river otter continued to pursue the family as they ... rivers and lakes and can become agitated as we come into their habitat, intentionally or not,” he said. Megan Isadore, the co-founder ...

The biologist suggested that the otters’ return to the local river courses was the result ... pollution and habitat loss. In 2011, England celebrated the return of local species from the brink ...