Tag: Otters

As a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Lacey, Washington, I answer all kinds of wildlife-related questions. Every spring and summer, I receive numerous phone calls and emails from throughout the Puget Sound area requesting that I come get a sea otter out from under a house, off a ...

As a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Lacey, Washington, I answer all kinds of wildlife-related questions. Every spring and summer, I receive numerous phone calls and emails from throughout the Puget Sound area requesting that I come get a sea otter out from under a house, off a ...

1. Otters come in all shapes and sizes There are 13 types of otter in the world, of all different shapes and sizes. Members of the otter family include the South American giant otter — which can reach up to 1.7m in length; the Asian small-clawed otter — the smalles...