Three years later the practice of otter hunting was banned. Fortunately numbers have subsequently grown thanks to a ban on the offending pesticides and while it is notoriously difficult to ...

Peek told KDWP commissioners last year that otters are now expanding into parts of central Kansas where water is available ...

Fish make up most of the giant otter's diet. They hunt alone or in groups, sometimes using coordinated efforts, and must be successful often to meet their daily intake quota. Each animal may eat ...

By then, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) had outlawed trade in otter skins, but clandestine commercial hunting continued, particularly in remote areas of the ...

Otter abodes feature numerous tunnels—one of ... River otters, members of the weasel family, hunt at night and feed on whatever might be available. Fish are a favorite food, but they also ...

This mythical otter is based on the Japanese river otter, which used to be common in Japan, before hunting for pelts and habitat destruction caused it to be declared extinct in 2012 after not ...