Paranitha was quickly transformed into Sea Otter, but without the ice plants and sea breeze. |
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Otter cubs are fully weaned after three to four months, but stay with their mother for up to a year, during which time they learn to fish. |
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One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh. |
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Otter hunting was the oldest organized sport in Great Britain in which packs of scent hounds were used for hunting. |
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We ate some breakfast and jumped into our rafts and rowed down to the southeastern end of Otter Lake. |
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We pulled dinner from below the lower falls and spent another day crossing Otter Lake and exploring the boggy headwaters of the Steelhead River. |
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Day's tours have become so popular that two years ago she bought her own Dehavilland Otter floatplane. |
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Built on a narrow spit of land dividing Otter Lake from Goulding Lake, the cabin proved to be the perfect base. |
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In its conception and concretion, the Otter Creek feeding facility was a monument to Horace Albright's philosophy of aesthetic conservation. |
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The loan of a USN helicopter for combat search and rescue duties in place of the obsolete Sea Otter biplane flying boat had an outstanding effect on aircrew morale. |
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When the Commander's twin Otter left an hour later it also medevacked Sgt. |
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There will be Russian orchestral repertoire with Russian orchestras and a further flavour of the baroque with Anne Sofie Von Otter and the Gabrielli Consort. |
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A similar reintroduction trial is being undertaken on the River Otter in Devon, England. |
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You never know when a Whimbrel, a Red-throated Diver, Golden Plover, Common Seal or Otter may put in an unscheduled appearance. |
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During December 2011 I read the story of Tarka the Otter to Rudi as a bedtime story. |
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King's opened in October 1831 with the cleric William Otter appointed as first principal and lecturer in divinity. |
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Notable solo artists who have featured on LSC releases include Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenleyside, Felicity Palmer and Anne Sofie von Otter. |
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A group of three beavers was spotted on the River Otter in Devon in 2013, apparently successfully bearing three kits the next year. |
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Rivers that flow into Lyme Bay include the Exe, Otter, Sid and Axe in Devon, and the Lim, Char, Brit and Bride in Dorset. |
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The DHC-6 Twin Otter is a Canadian 20-passenger STOL utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada and currently produced by Viking Air. |
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Company CEO Thomas Tedder, who founded Alien Gear in 2013, accompanied Otter on the tour. |
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Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues. |
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Flying over the frozen Arctic Sea in an Otter, a blown gasket required a rapid, powerless glide to reach safety on a flat bouldery strip of shoreline on Axel Heiberg Island. |
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Otter populations are affected by the density of prey they hunt. |
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In the valleys and lowlands of south and east Devon the soil is more fertile, drained by rivers including the Exe, the Culm, the Teign, the Dart, and the Otter. |
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An extra Twin Otter aircraft was sourced for the beginning of the 2013 season following the cessation of helicopter services to and from the islands. |
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The tour promised spiritual experiences with humpback whales and other cetaceans, but all we saw were seagulls and a dead sea otter. |
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Carnivorous mammals include the fox, badger, otter, weasel, stoat and elusive wildcat. |
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Red deer are numerous on the northern hills, and there are populations of red squirrel, badger, otter, adder and common lizard. |
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The islands also provide a habitat for other important species such as corncrake, hen harrier, golden eagle and otter. |
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Among threatened animals are the coastal California gnatcatcher, Paiute cutthroat trout, southern sea otter, and northern spotted owl. |
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The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. |
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Most have sharp claws on their feet and all except the sea otter have long, muscular tails. |
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Several otter species live in cold waters and have high metabolic rates to help keep them warm. |
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In some areas, this is a protected species, and some places have otter sanctuaries that help sick and injured otters to recover. |
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From 1958 to 1963, the 11 otter hunts in England and Wales killed 1,065 otters between them. |
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The otter is held to be a clean animal belonging to Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrian belief, and taboo to kill. |
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The response to an appeal for otter sightings in 2014 yielded more than 100 sightings. |
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Like a modern otter, Puijila had a long tail, short limbs and webbed feet instead of flippers. |
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In some respects though, the sea otter is more fully adapted to water than pinnipeds, which must haul out on land or ice to give birth. |
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The sea otter may pluck snails and other organisms from kelp and dig deep into underwater mud for clams. |
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The fur of the Californian southern sea otter was less highly prized and thus less profitable. |
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Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun. |
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In North America, both species of otter have been known to be ambushed by brown bears when on land. |
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A dead grey heron found in the Pyrenees is thought to have been killed by an otter. |
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Both otter and frog seem to be extending their ranges to higher altitudes. |
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Though endangered, the sea otter has a relatively large population. |
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They are usually fished from beam trawlers, otter trawlers or seiners. |
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After the northern sea otter was hunted to local extinction, maritime fur traders shifted to California until the southern sea otter was likewise nearly extinct. |
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A decline in Aleutian Islands sea otter populations in the 1990s was controversially attributed by some scientists to killer whale predation, although with no direct evidence. |
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There has been a long history of otter pelts being worn around the world. |
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As with other species of otter, they rely on a layer of air trapped in their fur, which they keep topped up by blowing into the fur from their mouths. |
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The word otter derives from the Old English word otor or oter. |
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