Full title: Otters : ecology, behaviour, and conservation / Hans Kruuk.

Author/creator: Kruuk, H. (Hans). Wild otters, Kruuk, H. (Hans).

Date: 2006..

Call Numbers: N599.769/1

Record Identifier: 74VKKxkWwZvA

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., 1. Otter ecology and its background -- 2. Pen pictures. Thirteen otters of the world : some natural history -- 3. Evolutionary relationships, questions and methods of otter ecology -- 4. Habitats -- 5. Groups and loners : social organization -- 6. Scent marking and interactions : social behaviour -- 7. Diet -- 8. Resources : about fish and other prey -- 9. Otters fishing : hunting behaviour and strategies -- 10. Thermo-insulation : a limiting factor -- 11. Populations, recruitment and competition -- 12. Survival and mortality -- 13. Syntheses : challenges to otter survival -- 14. Otters, people and conservation.

Publishers: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Notes: Previous ed.: published as Wild otters. 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 599.769

MMS ID: 991022014209702626