Otter
Facts about Otters
Otters are semi-aquatic mammals.
Otters feed mainly on fish and
shellfish, but they also eat some invertebrates, amphibians and birds.
Otters are distributed worldwide
and live in the basins of rivers with the exception of the Sea Otter that lives along the Pacific
coast of North America.
Most otters live in cold waters
but they do not have the layer of fat common in other marine mammals, instead they protect from
cold with high metabolic rates and some species like the sea otter have a layer of air in their fur
that insulates from cold.
The best known species are the
Sea Otter, the Eurasian Otter, the North American River Otter and the Giant
Otter.
More Facts and Information about
Otters...
|
