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The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter and river otter, is a semiaquatic mammal that lives only on the North American continent throughout most of Canada, along the coasts of the United States and its inland waterways. An adult North American river otter can weigh between 5.0 and 14 kg (11.0 ...
Verde River. The Verde River (Yavapai: Haka'he:la) is a major tributary of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is about 170 miles (270 km) long [4] and carries a mean flow of 602 cubic feet per second (17.0 m 3 /s) at its mouth. It is one of the largest perennial streams in Arizona. [4]
Red Rock State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a red sandstone canyon outside the city of Sedona. The main mission of this day-use park is the preservation of the riparian habitat along Oak Creek. Red Rock State Park serves as an environmental education facility for the public and for school or private groups, and ...
Mink and river otters have few predators other than occasional predation by coyotes, bobcats, and humans. Minks are one of our native semi-aquatic mammals, along with beavers, muskrats, and otters.
The giant otter has a handful of other names. In Brazil it is known as ariranha, from the Tupi word arerãîa, or onça-d'água, meaning water jaguar. [6] In Spanish, river wolf (Spanish: lobo de río) and water dog (Spanish: perro de agua) are used occasionally (though the latter also refers to several different animals) and may have been more common in the reports of explorers in the 19th ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 7, Zinnia, a 5-year-old North American river otter that arrived at Zoo Miami in April 2019, from her birthplace, the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island, gave birth.
List of mustelids. Six extant mustelid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Martes, Meles, Lutra, Gulo, Mustela, and Mellivora. Mustelidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, and wolverines, and many other extant and extinct genera. A member of this family is called a ...
River otter drags child underwater, attacks mother at marina. Kerry Breen. September 13, 2024 at 1:05 PM. A young child is recovering after being dragged under the water and injured by a river ...