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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 ...
The Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is an amphibious, mammalian carnivore native to South America. About the length of an adult human being, it is the longest member of the mustelidae, or weasel family, a globally successful group of predators. Unusually for a mustelid, the Giant Otter is a social species, with family groups typically ...
A giant river otter was spotted in the El Impenetrable National Park in northeast Argentina on May 16, where it was previously thought to have been locally extinct, according to the Rewilding ...
Sthenictis sp. (American Museum of Natural History). Mustelids vary greatly in size and behaviour. The smaller variants of the least weasel can be under 20 cm (8 in) in length, while the giant otter of Amazonian South America can measure up to 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) and sea otters can exceed 45 kg (99 lb) in weight.
Megalenhydris barbaricina is an extinct species of giant otter from the Late Pleistocene of Sardinia.It is known from a single partial skeleton, discovered in the Grotta di Ispinigoli near Dorgali, and was described in 1987. [1]
Meet Buddy, the blind river otter at Jacksonville Zoo February 7, 2023 at 3:02 PM He lost his eyesight in an accident, but now the endangered giant river otter is rehabilitated and happy at the ...
"The otters are a just super voracious predator," said Kerstin Wasson, research coordinator with the Reserve. "We calculated that the current otter population here eats somewhere between 50,000 ...