Wild Otters: Predation and Populations

By Hans Kruuk

Book Overview

Wild Otters answers the need for an up-to-date, scientifically-oriented introduction to the Lutra lutra species. Based in part on the author's extensive field observations, the book provides a superb basis for active conservation management of a species faced with an increasingly hostile environment. Topics include social organization and behavior, food and foraging strategies, ecological information on their main prey fish, problems of energetics and thermo-insulation, population structure, mortality and reproduction, and the impact of humans. Packed with illustrations and photographs, Wild Otters is perfect for students and researchers in ecology, conservation, zoology, and animal behavior.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198540701
• ISBN13: 9780198540700
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"