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Otter (Lutra canadensis)

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OtterOtters are highly skilled swimmers and love to play.
Appearance: long, slender body ; flattened head; long flat tail, thick at the base and tapering towards the tip; dense, oily underfur; glossy guard hairs; brown; five fully webbed toes on each foot; adults average 15 pounds;36 teeth

Reproduction: breeds in late winter or early spring; gestation period can be as long as 10 months or more; young born in late winter; 1-3 kits per litter

Food habits: frogs, turtles, snakes, fish (generally non-game ), crayfish, crabs, birds, small land mammals like rats and mice

Habits: constantly on the move; young will stay with mother through 1st winter

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Distribution: widespread in Louisiana; widely distributed across Canada and the U.S., excluding portions of the arid southwest and some states along the Mid-Atlantic coast

Habitat: near water; in rivers, lakes, wetlands; in both fresh and brackish waters; dens in the bank of a canal or stream with the entrance below water level 

Controls: adults rarely preyed upon; juveniles may be vulnerable to bobcats and coyotes; relatively free of parasites; suffer from habitat loss, pollution, and poisons 
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Values: usually help a trout stream by containing populations; can devastate a fish farm 

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    • Louisiana Fur & Pelt Handling
    • Skull Cleaning
    • Trapping Benefits
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      • Beaver
      • Bobcat
      • Coyote
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      • Red Fox
      • Mink
      • Muskrat
      • Nutria
      • Opossum
      • Otter
      • Raccoon
      • Striped Skunk
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