NOUN
- sociable aquatic animal widely distributed along streams and lake borders in North America
How To Use river otter In A Sentence
- River otters frisked in appreciation of winter's retreat.
- River otters have paired scent glands at the base of their tail which give off a heavy, musky smell.
- North American river otters build dens in the burrows of other mammals, in natural hollows, such as under a log, or in river banks.
- North American river otters are sometimes taken by bobcats, coyotes, birds of prey, alligators, and other large predators.
- The river and its surrounding vegetation are home to monitor lizards, terrapins, monkeys, river otters and sea eagles.
- His first love is orphaned river otters - also members of the weasel family - but fishers have come to take second place.
- Whereas the largest are fairly well researched, knowledge of the fisher, wolverine, river otter, mink, lynx, bobcat, and raccoon is almost entirely from anecdote.
- The island is a natural habitat for abundant wildlife, with alligators (look for them lazing in the sun in Myrtle Pond), fallow deer, river otter, and armadillos.
- River otters have paired scent glands at the base of their tail which give off a heavy, musky smell.
- Mud crab exoskeletal remains were abundant in the scat of river otter of the upper Parker River estuary.
