A Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy rescued a badly injured river otter early Sunday morning after spotting the animal along Highway 97 near Tumalo Place. However, the otter later passed away, despite ...

A Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy rescued a badly injured river otter early Sunday morning after spotting the animal along Highway 97 near Tumalo Place. However, the otter later passed away, despite ...

Otters are well loved for a variety of reasons, including their adorable personalities and affinity for holding hands. But ...

The Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium announced Tuesday that it is mourning the loss of one of its North American river ...

As you would imagine, with a body designed for swimming, a huge percentage of their diet consists of creatures that live underwater. Able to hold their breath for up to eight minutes, neotropical ...

"Young river otters are extremely dependent on their mothers, and Tilly not only raised her own offspring but three other young pups who had lost their moms and needed a second chance," Osburn ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Zoo is mourning the loss of Tilly, the oldest member of its North American river otter family, who was humanely euthanized following a decline due to her ...

These findings suggest that Hammerschmiede once hosted a thriving ecosystem with a wide variety of animals coexisting in a forest-rich river landscape ... four different otter-like animals of ...

In this study, we conducted a survey of the food items present in the diet of the giant otters living in the Balbina hydroelectric reservoir, Uatumã River, with two main goals in mind: 1) to compare ...

River otters really do have more fun. They jostle, belly-slide across ice and snow and toboggan down embankments into water. Splish splash. Few mammals are known to frolic as much as otters do ...

“She’s a river otter, although she comes from the sea,” Billy explains. “Otters need fresh water to wash salt off their fur, and they need a diet rich in fatty fish otherwise they’ll ...

There are many distinguishing features between a river otter vs sea otter. River otters are smaller than sea otters in both length and weight. Sea otters have a different diet from river otters, given ...