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	Otter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otters are aquatic or marine carnivorous mammals, members of the large and diverse family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others.
		To survive in the cold waters where many otters live, the specialised fur is not enough: otters have very high metabolic rates and burn up energy at a profligate pace: Eurasian otters, for example, must eat 15% of their body weight a day; sea otters, 20 to 25%, depending on the temperature.
		Sea otters eat shellfish and other invertebrates (especially clams, abalone, and sea urchins), and are frequently observed using rocks as crude tools to smash open shells.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otter (827 words)

	Otter (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Otter or Otr, son of Hreidmar was a dwarf in Norse mythology.
		Otter is a slang term for a slim, hairy gay man, generally used by the Bear community of which they are a subset.
		Otter is the state of one's tie being blown over their shoulder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otter_(disambiguation) (187 words)

	Otter: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Otters are aquatic or marine carnivorous[For more, click on this link] mammal[Click link for more facts about this topic]s, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The sea otter (enhydra lutris) is a large otter native to the north pacific, from northern japan and kamchatka west across the aleutian islands...
		The european otter, lutra lutra, is a european member of the mustelidae or weasel family, and is typical of freshwater otters....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ot/otter.htm (1952 words)

	Otter - MSN Encarta
		An otter species found in South America, known as the giant otter, reaches about 1.8 m (6 ft) in length.
		Otters live in dens, usually by the side of water and with an underwater entrance to the den.
		The otter of Europe and Asia is classified as Lutra lutra.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553069/Otter.html (290 words)

	otter on Encyclopedia.com
		OTTER [otter] name for a number of aquatic, carnivorous mammals of the weasel family, found on all continents except Australia.
		The otter is a social and playful animal; groups have been seen playing "follow the leader," sliding down mudbanks, or tobogganing in the snow, apparently for the sake of pleasure.
		The sea otter, Enhydra lutris, found in and around the kelp beds of the N Pacific, is the only exclusively marine species, although river otters sometimes enter the ocean at the mouths of rivers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/o1/otter.asp (561 words)

	River Otter: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		The river (or land) otter is found throughout Alaska with the exception of the Aleutian Islands, the offshore islands of the Bering Sea, and the area adjacent to the arctic coast east of Point Lay.
		Otter fur consists of a very dense undercoat overlaid with longer guard hairs, which are usually removed by furriers.
		Otters travel together and operate as a social unit but do not cooperate in hunting or share what is caught.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/furbear/rvrotter.php (1132 words)

	Hall of Texas Mammals - Otter Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The River Otter is largely aquatic, and makes its den in a burrow of a bank on a lake or stream with underwater entrances, or in a hollow log or tree.
		The Otter is an opportunist, and prefers to catch the sick or sluggish fish, rather than work hard enough to catch the faster fish; therefore, it is not.as detrimental to fish as some fishermen believe.
		OTTER: The River Otter is a seldom seen inhabitant of East Texas.
	www.dallasdino.org /exhibits/mammals_hall/otter.asp (785 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Eurasian river otter, European otter, common otter, old world otter
		Otters are one of the most playful animals, often appearing to take childlike enjoyment in sliding around on muddy banks or in snow.
		Otters are solitary and are active at dusk and during the night.
		Otters breed all year round, with a gestation period of about 63 days, after which two or three cubs are born.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/196.shtml (426 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Otter
		Most otters are born in a den, helpless and with their eyes closed.
		For sea otters in their ocean habitat it’s a little different—the pups are born with their eyes open, and they have a special coat of hair so they can float, even though they can’t swim yet.
		For most otters, social groups are made up of a mother, her older offspring, and her newest pups; the males spend most of their time alone or with a few other males.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-otter.html (976 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; mammals: Lutra canadensis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An individual otter may move from 77.2 - 96.6 km (48 - 60 mi) along a waterway in a season, but the average is from 4.8 - 16.1 km (3 - 10 mi).
		The River Otter has few natural predators, but there are reports of it being preyed upon by American Alligators, Bobcats, and Coyotes.
		River Otters have lived for 20 years in captivity, but 5 - 7 years is the average in the wild.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/mammals/carnivora/mustelidae/icanadensis.html (655 words)

	otter
		Otters are found throughout most of Asia in the freshwater wetlands and mangrove swamps.
		The Asian small-clawed otter is the smallest of all the otter species and one of the most attractive, sporting a velvety, burnt umber coat, white chin and neck, and pink nose.
		Otters have two layers of fur consisting of a thick, coarse, waterproof outer coat and an insulating, warm inner layer made up of much finer, softer fur.
	www.wellingtonzoo.com /animals/animals/mammals/otter.html (537 words)

	Horse. The Animal In You
		Otters are petite, engaging creatures overflowing with positive energy.
		But when an otter gets focused on a problem, it's keen intelligence rises to the challenge and it will not give up until the nut is cracked.
		Otters feel entitled to the good things in life and a general sense of well being gives them the confidence to not have to save for the future.
	www.animalinyou.com /Otter.htm (510 words)

	OTTERNET.COM - Homepage
		We also have habitat overviews for the five continents otters live on; there you can find which otters live in each country, what the threats to them are, and their conservation status.
		Otters, once sought after for their fur, are making a comeback in some areas.
		Otters are very smart; they are one of only a handful of tool using mammals.
	www.otternet.com (404 words)

	BBC - Devon Discovering Devon - Devon's Rivers - The Otter
		The River Otter may be a Devon river, but it actually starts its south-westerly journey to the sea from across the county border in Somerset.
		The Otter often bursts its banks and flooding is a major problem for communities along the river.
		The River Otter isn't one of the biggest rivers in Devon, but it's among the most scenic and has played a big role in the past and present of the communities it flows through.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/discovering/rivers/otter.shtml (464 words)

	ANIMAL BYTES - Sea Otter
		Juvenile sea otters tend to be a uniform dark-cinnamon brown while adults develop lighter gray or buff coloration on their heads.
		Natural oils in a sea otter's fur repel water and trap tiny air bubbles, providing a layer of warm air between the otter's skin and the harsh elements of its environment.
		California sea otters spend almost all of their time in the water, while Alaska sea otters often sleep, groom, and nurse their young on land.
	www.seaworld.org /animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/carnivora/sea-otter.htm (749 words)

	otter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Otters are well adapted to a semi-aquatic existence; they have webbed feet and a muscly tapered tail to aid swimming, touch sensitive whiskers and acute underwater vision with which to detect prey under water, and thick water repellent fur to maintain body heat.
		Otters are at the top of the food chain, and because of their natural fat reservoirs, they are highly susceptible to the accumulation of fat soluble pesticides and other toxins.
		Otter populations in the South are moving South eastwards from the South West counties, and Southwards from the Thames and Kent regions.
	www.biodiversitysussex.org /otter.htm (4435 words)

	Otter Network Viz Tool
		In this section we describe Otter's support for interactive customization of the display: manually tuning the graph layout, changing the status of root nodes (i.e., turning non-root nodes into roots and vice versa), moving nodes or sub-trees around, and focusing on a specific region of the graph.
		Otter's also supports a `step-by-step' function that allows the user to draw the graph incrementally from the root nodes out toward the leaves of the topology one `level' at a time.
		Otter is a visualization tool for network data that can handle a variety of data sets as input, while maintaining backward compatibility with existing data sets.
	www.caida.org /tools/visualization/otter/paper (4974 words)

	German Wirehaired Pointer, Otter, Drahthaar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Otter seemed to really enjoy all the places we went and things we saw, though he was a little protective in our motel room.
		Otter ran off one evening and I caught up with him two doors down barking at the neighbor dog which at the time was confined to his kennel.
		Otter at 20 months, smelling an artichoke (51k)
	members.aol.com /forotter (2009 words)

	Short-Clawed Otter
		This small mammal is the smallest of the otters, but, unfortunately, they remain somewhat of a mystery because of lack of research and study.
		The Short-Clawed Otter is found most often in shallow water at the mouths of rivers, near the coast, or in marshy swamps.
		They are also known to eat frogs and smaller fish, but, unlike other otters, they don’t snag their food out of the water with their mouths but instead use their “hands” to grab it and can find hidden food in the mud and rocks.
	www.indonesianfauna.com /shortclawedotter.php (623 words)

	FlightDeck Milestones: de Havilland Otter
		The success of the de Havilland Canada Beaver inspired the creation of the Otter, originally to be dubbed the "King Beaver".
		The Otter in the service of the OPAS was instrumental in developing the concept of the water bomber as we know it today.
		The Museum example of the Otter was built in 1960 and went to the RCAF the same year.
	www.exn.ca /FlightDeck/Aircraft/Milestones/dhotter.cfm (502 words)

	Otter: An Automated Deduction System
		Otter's inference rules are based on resolution and paramodulation, and it includes facilities for term rewriting, term orderings, Knuth-Bendix completion, weighting, and strategies for directing and restricting searches for proofs.
		Otter is a fourth-generation Argonne National Laboratory deduction system whose ancestors (dating from the early 1960s) include the TP series, NIUTP, AURA, and ITP.
		Otter and its predecessors have been used to answer many open questions in the areas of finite semigroups, ternary Boolean algebra, logic calculi, combinatory logic, group theory, lattice theory, and algebraic geometry.
	www-unix.mcs.anl.gov /AR/otter (498 words)

	Oakland Zoo: North American River Otter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because otters prey most easily on fish that are slow and lethargic, much of the diet consists of "rough" fish like carp, suckers, catfish, and sculpins.
		The otter kits start their life in a burrow in a river bank, usually an abandoned muskrat den.
		The river otter is native to northern and central California, being found in the delta region of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, where it sometimes dens in thick tules.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azotter.html (516 words)

	Sea Otter Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		Sea otters are sleek, furry, streamlined marine mammals that live along rocky Pacific Ocean coasts, bays, and kelp beds.
		The sea otter is a protected species because of previous overhunting (they were once hunted for their thick, dense fur).
		Fur: Sea otters are kept warm in the cold Pacific Ocean by their dense fur and high metabolism; they are the only marine mammal that has no layer of insulating fat.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/weasel/Seaotterprintout.shtml (384 words)

	OTTER Project
		The purpose of the Oregon Transect Ecosystem Research (OTTER) Project was to estimate major fluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and water in forest ecosystems using an ecosystem-process model driven by remotely sensed data.
		Study sites included a coastal forest of western hemlock, sitka spruce, and red alder in a recent clear-cut; a mid-elevation forest of mature Douglas fir in the lower Cascades and a fertilized plot nearby; and an inland forest of ponderosa pine on the drier eastern slope of the Cascades with a fertilized forest nearby.
		OTTER at the University of Utah's Bowling Lab
	www-eosdis.ornl.gov /OTTER/otter.html (174 words)

	otter designs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Otter Designs jewelry is made by hand with the most scrumptious ingredients I can get my little paws on: sterling silver, vivid hand painted porcelain beads, sparkling Swarovski crystal and semi-precious gemstones.
		Otter Designs jewelry goes with jeans and a t-shirt as well as it goes with a little fl dress.
		Otter Designs jewelry is made with great care and has been known to survive being accidentally slept in (there may have been a margarita or two involved--purely for test purposes, of course.)
	www.otterdesigns.com (135 words)

	River Otters: Animal Information, Pictures, Map--National Geographic Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Otters prefer water bordered by woods and with wetlands, such as marshes, nearby.
		While river otters spend most of their time in water, they do travel across land as well—often in search of a mate.
		Otters even make their land travel look playful.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /kids/creature_feature/0006/otters2.html (325 words)

	Sea Otter - The Animals of British Columbia, Canada - BC Adventure Network
		Biology - The sea otter feeds on clams, sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, starfish and fish.
		They swim belly up with their front paws in the air, using the webbed hind feet for propulsion.
		The sea otter population was nearly decimated by the fur trade and they now are a protected and endangered species.
	www.bcadventure.com /adventure/wilderness/animals/seaotter.htm (197 words)

	NOVA Online \| Island of the Spirits \| Otter
		As a punishment for this deliquency and astonishing forgetfulness, God punished the otter with a bad memory; yea, he took his memory completely away.
		"The otter's head must not lightly be used as an article of food, for unless people are very careful they will, if they eat it, become as forgetful as that creature.
		When eating it the people must take their swords, knives, axes, bows and arrows, tobacco boxes and pipes, trays, cups, garden tools, and everything they possess, tie them up in bundles with carrying slings, and sit with them attached to their heads while in the act of eating...
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/hokkaido/legott.html (329 words)

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