Nordenskjoeld says these otters have been driven away, not only from Bering Island, but also from other grounds, where formerly they were slaughtered by the thousand.
The darkness in which otters delight, their watery habitations, their oily, noiseless movements, and their dark fur, invest them with mystery in the eyes of the peasantry in many parts of England.
The flesh of all otters is extremely rank and fishy; and because it cannot be called meat, it is often allowed to be eaten on the meager days appointed by the Romish Church.
Otters will certainly consume an immense quantity of fish; and the owners of salmon or trout streams have great spite against them.
It is to weasels and otters that I shall confine myself in this work, for about their intellectual powers do we know most.
The people in Scotland believe that theotters have a king, or leader, which is larger than others, and spotted with white.
Bishop Heber mentions, that he saw several large and very beautiful otters fastened to bamboo stakes by the side of the Matta Colly river, some of which appeared to be at play, and uttered a shrill, whistling noise.
The skins of the sea-otters form their principal wealth, and are a substitute for money.
Sea-otters and seals are also speared, the former with a weapon more barbed and firmly attached to the handle, as they are fierce fighters; but when found asleep on the rocks, they are shot with arrows.
At Bassenthwaite a man and his son trained a pair of otters to fish in the lake.
Of forty-five dead otters killed in hunting, in two only were there remains of fish food, and this consisted of eels--deadly enemies either to trout stream or salmon river.
This reach swarms with handsome well-fed trout; and yet far back among the rocky shelves of the river a brood of otters are brought forth annually, have been in fact time out of mind.
Otters are still abundant on the banks of most northern streams, as also among the rocks and boulders of the coast-line.
Abundance of otters and plenty of trout exist side by side; and where the fastnesses of the former are impregnable, there disease is foreign to the stream.
Under the dark slab by the river the otters breed; but it is impossible to dislodge them.
Under the dark slabs by the river the otters breed; but it is impossible to dislodge them.
Most of the newspaper paragraphs anent the doings of otters are mere legendary stories without any foundation in fact.
Borde has informed me there are three species of ottersin Cayenne, being of different sizes: the largest weighing at least 50 pounds, and the smallest not above 3 or 4.
The beaver, however, though not remarkable for strength, drives the otters away, and will not suffer them to dwell near his residence.
The Otters in this, as well as every other part of the bay, vary in size and colour, according to age and season.
It matters very little, however, whether these sculptures were intended as otters or not, the main point in the present connection being that they cannot have been intended as manatees.
It was doubtless the general resemblance which the several specimens of the otters and the so-called manatees bear to each other that led Stevens astray.
Otters and pine martens are taken in good numbers and beavers occur more sparingly.
Dowling reports:—“The principal fur-bearing animals of this region are foxes, otters and beavers.
The otters rose at different parts of the pool, each with a trout in its mouth, swam to the bank, and there lay at full length to devour their take.
Alas, he was soon to be rudely apprised of the insecurity of his refuge, which was in fact an ancient holt of the otters that visited the pool.
More than once too he caught sight of the dusky forms of otters stealing back to the cliffs; they were returning from a raid on the waterfowl.
And when he knew that they were after him, he made himself into a salmon; and when they knew he was a salmon, the sons made eleven otters of themselves, and the Gruagach made himself the twelfth.
When the fisherman's son found that twelve otters were after him, he was weak with hunger, and when they had come near, he made himself a whale.
In this are caught otters and beavers and certainly other wild animals with square-shaped faces.
An Aleutian hunter of sea-otters thinks that he cannot kill a single animal if during his absence from home his wife should be unfaithful or his sister unchaste.
You will ask God to send us, for the winter, plenty ofotters and sables, and for the summer, seals and fish in abundance.
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have repopulated most of the Aleutians after being nearly extirpated by 1900.
A guide to cleaning and care of oiled sea otters can be found in the California Oil and Hazardous Materials Contingency Plan.
Were Aleuts forced to rely more heavily on cormorant skins as puffin and guillemot numbers were reduced by rats and fox and sea otters by men?
Seals and otters are powerful animals, and the larger males and females can be quite aggressive and dangerous.
It is possible, however, that a spill could have significant adverse effects on sea ottersand fur seals, especially at a rookery during the pupping season.
As a result, little research has been conducted on cleaning and treatment techniques except for experiments on live beavers and on the carcasses and pelts of sea otters and beavers.
He asked after this tree and that, of this old man and that old woman, of the game, and the river fishery, and the fox coverts, and the otters of which three or four were reputed to be left when he was there.
Otters it seems were gone, but the foxes were there in plenty.
The otters are largely infested by flukes; Distoma trigonocephalum, D.
Otters are likewise infested by Ligulæ and Eustrongyli.
Otters den in the river or lake bank and provide an underwater entrance to their home.
Otters leave a surprisingly big trail for animals of their size.
If the sport takes place on a clay bank, the wet coats of the otters soon make the slide so slippery that the descent is made at thrilling speed.
Otters measure three or four feet in length and in weight run from fifteen to thirty pounds.
Some of the natives came occasionally in baidars, and exchanged sea-otters and fox skins for corals.
Sea-otters and other sea-animals resort but seldom to these islands; but there is great abundance of red and black foxes.
He procured, at the same time, the exclusive privilege of hunting sea-otters upon Beering's and Copper Island during these expeditions; and for this monopoly he agreed to deliver to the customs the tenth of the furs.
Of all these furs the skins of the sea-otters are the richest and most valuable.
The mens dress is made of birds skins, but the womens of sea-otters and sea-bears.
Oh, Sir, if they do, it is not so much to me and my fraternity, as those base vermin the Otters do.
Otters are generally caught in traps placed near their landing-places, and carefully concealed in the sand.
THE common Otter sometimes takes to the sea; but, on the eastern coasts of Northern Asia and the opposite shores of North America, true Sea Otters are met with, chiefly about the numerous rocky islands which fringe those coasts.
After breakfast there was great excitement, as four otters came swimming up to the rapid, possibly with the idea of going up into the lake above.
Going out to fish I could not get a rise, the otters had evidently scared all the fish out of the pool.
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