The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) is a biomonitor for organohalogenated compounds (OHCs) associated with a wide range of deleterious health effects in wildlife and humans. We determined concentrations of twenty OHCs in livers of 23 river otters salvaged by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources from 2009 to 2011, determined sex-dependent distribution of OHCs, and compared...

Endozoochory is a mutualistic interaction between plants and animals. Such relationship has rarely been examined in the Eurasian otter Lutra lutra. This study aimed to assess use electivity of fruit by this carnivore, along with viability ingested seeds. Otter spraints were collected from River Bullaque (Guadiana basin, central Spain) June September 2018-2019. A high occurrence (> 40%) was foun...

Abstract Human development can have detrimental impacts on the environment and its contained ecosystems. However, several species adapted to thrive in human-modified landscapes. This study was aimed assess habitat selection of threatened smooth-coated otters ( Lutrogale perspicillata ) peri-coastal landscape Goa, India. In Indian context, there are significant gaps knowledge pertaining factors ...

The giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is an endangered semi-aquatic carnivore of South America. We present findings on the demography of a population inhabiting the floodplain of Manu National Park, south-eastern Peru, arising from 14 annual dry season censuses over a 16 year period. The breeding system of territorial groups, including only a single breeding female with non-reproductive adul...

Historically, the North American river otter (Lontra canadensis; otter) was distributed across Carolina, USA, but populations were decimated by early 1900s. Otter trapping prohibited in 1938, reopened 1947, and gradually expanded until it opened statewide 2005. Between 1986 1992, Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Great Smoky Mountains National Park released 404 otters to restore western Ca...

Abstract The wetlands inhabited by the southern river otter Lontra provocax in Chile are subject to anthropogenic disturbances. As a result of modification and destruction its habitat, caused loss riparian vegetation, other threats, species is categorized as Endangered on IUCN Red List. We monitored diet during September 2020–January 2021 swamp forest fragment Chile. obtained evidence presence ...