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Oregon's source for breaking news, weather, entertainment videos and more. The Oregonian/OregonLive is the largest news organization in the Pacific Northwest located in Portland, Oregon. http://www.oregonlive.com/#/0

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Sea Otter Nursery Rhyme | ChuChuTV Sea World | Animal Songs For Children

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Please SUBSCRIBE NOW! http://bit.ly/BWchannel Watch More - http://bit.ly/BTpmarten On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote has the honor of feeding one incredibly adorable Baby Otter Pup!

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Giant otter

Main article: Giant otter

Giant otter

The giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) inhabits South America, especially the Amazon river basin, but is becoming increasingly rare due to poaching, habitat loss, and the use of mercury and other toxins in illegal alluvial gold mining. This gregarious animal grows to a length of up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft), and is more aquatic than most other otters.

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Nature | Meet Otter 501 | Saving Otter 501 | PBS

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Saving Otter 501 airs Wednesday, October 16 at 8/7c (check local listings). A baby sea otter abandoned on the beach was brought in to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This is the aquarium's 501st attempt to save an orphan otter. Against all odds, will she be able to return to her home in the wild?

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Some Facts about Otters | Pottery Barn Kids

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In this Pottery Barn Kids video, we get a chance to learn about otters. Otters are semi-aquatic animals. There are 12 known species of otters. Otters spend 8 hours of the day feeding, 5 to 6 hours grooming and 11 hours sleeping or resting.

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Info: http://www.otter-world.com/facts-about-otters/ http://a-z-animals.com/animals/otter/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otter http://www.livescience.com/55090-otter-facts.html http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/sea-otter/ Photos: https://pixabay.com/ http://www.freeimages.com/Alan Bourne http://www.freeimages.com/Marieke Kuijpers http://www.freeimages.com/atothek707 Music: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music Crystal - Vibe Tracks More Info: Scientific evidence reveals that otters have been living on this planet for 30 million years. This is one of the more fascinating facts when it comes to the evolution of these animals Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.

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Several otter species live in cold waters and have high metabolic rates to help keep them warm. European otters must eat 15% of their body weight each day, and sea otters 20 to 25%, depending on the temperature. In water as warm as 10 °C (50 °F), an otter needs to catch 100 g (3.5 oz) of fish per hour to survive. Most species hunt for three to five hours each day and nursing mothers up to eight hours each day.

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Fishing for humans

For many generations, fishermen in southern Bangladesh have bred smooth-coated otters and used them to chase fish into their nets. Once a widespread practice, passed down from father to son throughout many communities in Asia, this traditional use of domesticated wild animals is still in practice in the district of Narail, Bangladesh.[21][22]

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"as far south as Japan" -- anybody know which part of Japan? Japan is a very long country... it stretches far north enough that it has some standing territorial disputes with Russia, and clusters of islands in Okinawa to the south are on the same latitude as Taipei. -- Mote 03:31, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Otters have long, slim bodies and relatively short limbs. Their most striking anatomical features are the powerful webbed feet used to swim, and their seal-like abilities holding breath underwater. Most have sharp claws on their feet and all except the sea otter have long, muscular tails. The 13 species range in adult size from 0.6 to 1.8 m (2.0 to 5.9 ft) in length and 1 to 45 kg (2.2 to 99.2 lb) in weight. The Asian small-clawed otter is the smallest otter species and the giant otter and sea otter are the largest. They have very soft, insulated underfur, which is protected by an outer layer of long guard hairs. This traps a layer of air which keeps them dry, warm, and somewhat buoyant under water.

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what do otters eat?Fish are relatively insignificant in their diets. Congo clawless otters probably feed on fairly soft prey items such as small land vertebrates, frogs, and eggs. A sea otter's diet consists mainly of slow-moving fishes and marine invertebrates including crabs, sea urchins, abalones, clams, mussels, and snails.

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what do otters eat?Fish are relatively insignificant in their diets. Congo clawless otters probably feed on fairly soft prey items such as small land vertebrates, frogs, and eggs. A sea otter's diet consists mainly of slow-moving fishes and marine invertebrates including crabs, sea urchins, abalones, clams, mussels, and snails.

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Watch a baby sea otter being born! (Spoiler alert: the miracle of life is graphic!)

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he gestation period in otters is about 60 to 86 days. The newborn pup is cared for by the bitch, dog and older offspring. Bitch otters reach sexual maturity at approximately two years of age and males at approximately three years. The holt is built under tree roots or a rocky cairn, more common in Scotland. It is lined with moss and grass.

After one month, the pup can leave the holt and after two months, it is able to swim. The pup lives with its family for approximately one year. Otters live up to 16 years; they are by nature playful, and frolic in the water with their pups. Its usual source of food is fish, and further downriver, eels, but it may sample frogs and birds.

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Hunting

Otters have been hunted for their pelts from at least the 1700s, although it may have begun well before then. Early hunting methods included darts, arrows, nets and snares but later, traps were set on land and guns used.

There has been a long history of otter pelts being worn around the world. In China it was standard for the royalty to wear robes made from them. People that were financially high in status also wore them. The tails of otters were often made into items for men to wear. These included hats and belts. Even some types of mittens for children have been made from the fur of otters.[17]

Otters have also been hunted using dogs, specifically the otterhound.[18] From 1958 to 1963, the 11 otter hunts in England and Wales killed 1,065 otters between them. In such hunts, the hunters notched their poles after every kill. The prized trophy that hunters would take from the otters was the penis bone – which would be worn as a tie-pin.

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The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) became one of the major animals hunted and trapped for fur in North America after European contact. River otters eat a variety of fish and shellfish, as well as small land mammals and birds. They grow to one meter (3 to 4 ft) in length and weigh from five to 15 kilograms (10 to 30 lb).

In some areas, this is a protected species, and some places have otter sanctuaries that help sick and injured otters to recover.

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Predator and prey. Fast, agile swimmers with powerful jaws and sharp teeth, river otters have few natural predators when they are in the water. On land, however, they must be wary of predators such as bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, wolves, black bears and foxes

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did you know that sometimes they lie on there  back while they sleep

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did you know that sometimes they lie on there  back while they sleep

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http://www.otter-world.com/otter-habitat/

http://www.otter-world.com/otter-habitat/

otters live in freshwater and sometimes land.

River otters can be found all across the United States except for in the desert and the Florida Keys. They live in both freshwater and slightly salty, brackish habitats. As their name suggests, they inhabit rivers, but they also inhabit lakes, as well.