OTTERS
Mammal - Vertebrate - Omnivore
Mammal - Vertebrate - Omnivore
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Male: Otter
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Female: Otter
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Young: Pups
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OTTERS
There are about 13 species of Otter.
There are about 13 species of Otter.
- Are a member of the Weasel family.
- There are sea otters and land otters.
- Eats fish, amphibians, birds, shellfish, crayfish, salamanders, frogs, clams and small mammals.
- Are playful, intelligent and inquisitive - enjoying sliding down the riverbanks, wrestling with each other and somersaulting.
- Are excellent swimmers.
- Are very social animals.
- Live in burrows along riverbank.
- They eat, sleep and give birth in the water.
- They use rocks to crack open mussels.
- Like to float on their backs on the surface of the water.
- Can stay underwater for up to 4 minutes.
- As they dive, they close their ears and nostrils to keep the water out.
- Main threat is water pollution and habitat destruction.
- Sea otters hold each other's paws when they sleep so that they won't drift apart.
- The body of sea otters has a pouch across the front in which it stores pebbles to break open shellfish.
- Newborn otters done know how to swim, so their parents drag them into the water to teach them.
Visit: Otters . COLLECTIVE NOUNS
SEA OTTER