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A Report On The Sea-Otter Banks Of Alaska (1897) by Calvin Leighton Hooper, 2010-05-23
Fur-Seal, Sea Otter, and Salmon Fisheries by United States. Revenue-Cutter Service, 2010-01-10
Sea Otter by Irene Cockroft, 1974-03
Sea Otters (Sea Mammal Discovery Library) by Sarah Palmer, 1989-09
Animal Safari - Sea Otters by National Geographic Society, 1999-10-01
Sea otters, Cruz and Slick by Mary Craft, 1991
Sea Otters (A Nature I can read book) by Evelyn S Shaw, 1980
Sammy the Sea Otter (World of Animals Series) by John Storms, 1993-05
Kip: A Sea Otter (Cover-to-Cover Books) by Bonnie Highsmith Taylor, 2000-06
The Community Ecology of Sea Otters (Ecological Studies)
The Amazing Sea Otter by Victor B. Scheffer, 1981-09
Ollie the Otter (Talking Critters Series) by Kelly Alan Williamson, 2001-01-07
On the Swirl of the Tide (Wild Lives : Otters) by Bridget MacCaskill, Don MacCaskill, 2001-08-29
Koniag to king crab;: Alaska's southwest. Kodiak from sea otter settlement to king crab capitol; history of hunting and fishing industries, island villages, and scenic beauty by Yule M Chaffin, 1968

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Stock Photos Of Sea Otters - Acclaim Stock Photography
Stock Photos of sea otters Animals. Image Number 00010402-2321-1544 Photograph by Fred Voetsch, Stock Photos of sea otters. Image © Fred Voetsch.
http://www.acclaimstockphotography.com/_gallery/_pages/0001-0402-2321-1544.html
Chris' Whale Watching
Whale watching excursions along scenic Monterey Bay. See whales, dolphins, and sea otters.
http://www.chrisswhalewatching.com/

Extractions: Chris' Whale Watching Trips offers whale watching year-round. From early December to early April, we have 26,000 grey whales in the Monterey Bay. December, January and Februaray, they are migrating from Alaska to Mexico to give birth to their calfs. From the end of February to early april, the whales return with their calfs. You'll also see killer whales and many different types of dolphins and porpoise. Sea lions and sea otters are also common. Our whale watching trips are 2 hours long and fully narrated by our skippers , some who have been doing this for 30 years. It's a beautiful and educational trip. The trips run every day. Call us for times. The cost is $18.00 for adults and $12.00 for children. School and group rates are available.
Writer's Showcase: Instructions
sea otters a have a strong sense of smell, sharp eyesight, and excellent hearing. When sea otters sleep, they often wrap themselves in kelp, a kind of seaweed.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/showcase/3-4/research.html

Extractions: By Eric D. What animal spends almost half of its day cleaning its fur? What animal eats while lying on its back? It's the sea otter, of course. There's lots of other interesting things to learn about the sea otter. The sea otter is a mammal that has thick, soft, brown-black fur with a bit of gray in it. On a large otter, there are about 650,000 hairs for each square inch of fur. The otter needs this thick fur to keep warm because it doesn't have blubber like other marine mammals do. Air gets trapped in the otter's fur coat. This helps the otter keep warm and prevents it from sinking in the water. The sea otter is about four feet long. The males weigh about 654 pounds, and the females weigh about 45 pounds. Sea otters a have a strong sense of smell, sharp eyesight, and excellent hearing. They also have strong, sharp teeth to help them tear their food apart. The sea otter lives in only a few places in the world. One place is in the shallow waters off Alaska. Other places are the Commander Islands, the Aleutian Islands, and the coast of northern Japan. Another place is in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California from Santa Cruz to Point Conception. The sea otter has one pretty unusual feeding habit. It lies on its back with a rock on its stomach and smashes open its food on the rock with its paws. It's one of only a few animals that use tools. The sea otter likes to eat crabs, shrimp, sea urchins, turban snails, and abalone. It also likes to eat shellfish, mussels, and rock oysters.
Ocean Conservancy : Learn: Publications : Blue Planet Magazine : Fall 2002 : Run
Scientists are concerned about the sea otters serious population decline and what it means. sea otters are the largest members of the weasel family.
http://www.oceanconservancy.org/dynamic/learn/publications/blueplanet/fall02/fea

Extractions: Learn Publications Blue Planet Magazine Fall 2002 : Running Otter Time Our Programs Ocean Issues Fish and Wildlife Ocean Places ... Subscription Information You can receive a free one year subscription to Blue Planet Quarterly by becoming a member of The Ocean Conservancy. Scientists are concerned about the sea otters' serious population decline and what it means. If otters are in trouble, so are the oceansand eventually, so are we. Running Otter Time? By Michelle Mellon You've probably seen pictures of them, floating on their backs with their fuzzy heads above the water. They are one of the most popular animals in the sea, but they are also in serious trouble. Fossil records show that sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have been around for at least five million years. They were once found along the eastern Pacific coast from Mexico to Alaska and across the ocean from Japan to Russia. With Europeans' discovery of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands in the mid-1700s, however, otters fell prey to the maritime fur trade. Although they were protected under the International Fur Seal Treaty of 1911, the southern sea otter population was listed as threatened in 1977 under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Today, some 60,000 northern sea otters are scattered along the coasts of Alaska. Alarmingly, only 2,000 southern sea otters remain off the coast of central California. Sea otters are the largest members of the weasel family. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, they have adapted to spending most of their lives in water. Their flipper-like hind feet and broad, flat tails make them capable swimmers, but leave them awkward on land. Sea otters' lungs, trachea, and blood are made for deep diving, allowing them to hunt food underwater, staying submerged for up to five minutes at depths up to 100 meters.
ATDP Marine Biology II
sea otters. sea otters are marine mammals that were hunted relentlessly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for their beautiful pelts.
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/SDCLASSES/1453inbox/otters.html
CNN - Balance Sought In Sea Otter Conflict - March 24, 1999
http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9903/24/otters.enn/index.html

Extractions: What's more important to the coastal ecosystem, sea otters or shellfish? And is it possible for them both to coexist? These are the questions California marine officials are currently debating. Because sea otters have the capacity to practically decimate shellfish populations, California fishing groups are concerned that the shellfish industry, worth more than $100 million, may be at risk from these fuzzy creatures. They are appealing to the California Fish and Game Commission and state to take an active role in finding a solution to the mushrooming conflict between shellfish resources, fisheries and sea otters. The 2,000 sea otters living in California, are listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. In 1986, a zonal management system that designated sea otter protection zones and otter-free shellfishing areas was established by Congress. It was suggestion by the Marine Mammal Commission and followed more than 20 years of controversy and debate. The legislation intended both to foster California sea otter recovery and protect valuable southern California shellfish resources from otter predation.
BBC - Science & Nature - Animals - Children's Zone - Amazing Animals - Sea Otter
sea otter sea otters have long, flexible bodies and often swim with three humps showing out of the water. It s thought that many
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/reallywild/amazing/sea_otter.shtml

Extractions: Sea otter Sea otters have long, flexible bodies and often swim with three 'humps' showing out of the water. It's thought that many sightings of sea monsters can be put down to these animals. The sea otter is the smallest marine mammal, and the only one to use tools. They inhabit the food rich waters of the north Pacific, where they swim and fish in the iciest of seas. Sea otters have the warmest fur of any animal, with 126,000 hairs per square centimetre. They spend up to three hours a day grooming and blowing into their coats to fill them with insulating air. This acts like a wetsuit, and helps to keep the otter warm underwater. The sea otter's reliance on its fur makes it very susceptible to oil spills, and the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska killed several thousand animals. Sea otters feed on clams and sea urchins from the sea bed. To crack open the tough shells, the sea otter pounds them against a stone which it balances on its chest. An otter keeps a favourite stone in a 'waistcoat pocket', which is a fold of skin under its armpit. They have to eat about 25 to 30 per cent of their body weight every day in order to survive the harsh conditions.
Diss Otters
Training times, committee and minutes, constitution, fixtures list, records, results, entry forms and newsletters and personal bests. This Norfolk club caters for fitness and competitive swimmers plus Masters.
http://www.heronh.demon.co.uk/Wo/
ADW: Mustelidae: Information
The mustelids are by far the largest family of Carnivora, including weasels, stoats, polecats, ferrets, mink, marten, fishers, tayras, wolverines, grisons, badgers, skunks, otters, and others.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/carnivora/mustelidae.htm

Extractions: editLink('skunkworks/.accounts/200310302111') 2004/05/18 13:28:32.099 GMT-4 By Phil Myers Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Mustelidae Members of this Family weasels, stoats, polecats, ferrets, mink, marten, fishers, tayras, wolverines, grisons, badgers, skunks, otters, and others This is by far the largest family of Carnivora, containing nearly twice as many species (65, in 25 genera) as the next most speciose group (the Herpestidae ). Mustelids are found are found on all continents except Antarctica and Australia. These carnivores range from very small (the least weasel is the smallest member of the order Carnivora, weighing 35-70 gms) to medium (a large sea otter weighs around 35-40 kg). Their body shapes vary greatly; many, however, are elongate and have relatively short legs. The tail is usually long, the ears small and rounded, and the eyes may be small. All mustelids have well-developed anal glands; these are potent weapons of defense in some species such as skunks. Mustelids are plantigrade or digitigrade , and their feet have five toes. The claws can be partially retracted in some species. Claws are developed in some, but generally they are short, laterally compressed, and curved. In otters, the hands and feet are webbed. Male mustelids have a well-developed baculum.
News: Programmers: Otters With Rocks?
Discusses historical move from low level languages to higher level interpreted ones, productivity, future developments. Active feedback response. ZDNet News
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-529641.html

Extractions: COMMENTARYWhen I first began programming, I wrote software in 68k assembler. I was one of those hardcore cycle-shavers who knew the fastest way to clear a data register was with a moveq rather than a clr, or whether a branch taken was faster than an untaken one (which depended on whether it was a short or long branch). I ultimately had to be forced to learn a higher-level language Modula-2 since I was perfectly comfortable with what I was doing, and felt that I was plenty productive. Reading Unreal developer Tim Sweeney's exegesis on programming languages about a year ago brought back many memories. Having recently re-read it, it started me thinking about what the next step in programming language evolution is going to be. We've seen programming languages develop increasingly greater distance from the hardware they're meant to control. C provided a level of abstraction above assembly language, and C++ bolted numerous extensions onto C, creating what many consider an unwieldy monster. Having been witness to quite a few mind-curdling discussions during the past few years about what a given snippet of C++
Of Otters And Men
Relaxed musings about the author's involvement in furry fandom.
http://www.baverstock.org.uk/tim/furry.html

Extractions: email home This is the bit where my work colleagues would probably tell you to run away. If you wander off to do a websearch for the word `furry', you're certain to encounter a number of sites describing Furry Fandom, a very broad grouping which currently seems to include anyone who's read Watership Down once or twice and thought it was good, all the way up to people who believe themselves to be wolves born to parents of the wrong species, and who try to work that out in every area of their lives, apart from using the internet, taking advantage of advances in medical science, getting well-paid jobs in California's computer industry, etc. My interest probably sits around the middle of the camp. I'm interested in mammals, particularly carnivores, particularly mustelids (the weasel family). I used to be wildly interested in foxes, learning all the different species, their latin names, some of their behaviours and locales, until one Christmas day, just after I'd been asked to set the table with the good silver. I found myself gazing at the wall of the dining room, not thinking of awfully much, when suddenly my enthusiasm for all things vulpine was removed - exactly as if someone had pulled my brain's Nintendo cartridge - and replaced with an equal focus on otters and other weasels. I enjoy cartoons (who doesn't) and I'm likely to be more sympathetic to a mediocre comic strip which involves talking animals than to one just involving humans. I particularly like ones where the animals talk, even talk with the humans, but they're still treated like animals: flea collars, eating from a bowl, etc. These include
Sea Otter Kids' Planet Defenders Of Wildlife
sea Otter Kids' Planet Defenders of Wildlife
http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/otter.html
Seattle Otters Water Polo
Includes schedule, practice information, history, statistics, news, photos, philanthropic participation, affiliations, and results of the 2001 International Open.
http://www.otterpolo.com/
Huddersfield Otters Water Polo
of the club, venues, time and facilities. Located in Yorkshire, England.
http://website.lineone.net/~bstanding

Extractions: Links Club Contacts: Bryan Standing phone: 01484 605683 evenings e-mail: bstanding@lineone.net Paul Bentley phone: 01484 843700 e-mail: Paul@paulandjean.co.uk Huddersfield Otters A.S.C. has been involved in competitive water polo for the greater part of the last century right through to this new millennium. Today, as in earlier years, the club is committed to maintaining and furthering water polo interests in the Huddersfield and Kirklees areas and to support this it has the use of two 25 metre pools with full water polo facilities and equipment at each venue. The facilities available give plenty of scope for the full range of coaching, training and competitive activities necessary for a membership of varying ages and abilities. The Friday night session at the Huddersfield Sports Centre follows the club's swimming session for beginners and younger swimmers which runs from 7.00pm to 8.00pm. The water polo session commences at 8.00pm with the 25m pool facility shared with younger players practice for mini-polo up to 9.00pm and general training for older players to 9.30 pm. The Tuesday night session is from 8.30pm to 10.00pm and is based at the McAlpine Stadium Pool which gives us an excellent full depth water polo facility.
Sea Otter
sea Otter. Enhydra lutris Threatened The sea otter has been hunted to near extinction for its soft, thick, lustrous fur. This marine
http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/seaotter.htm

Extractions: The sea otter has been hunted to near extinction for its soft, thick, lustrous fur. This marine mammal once inhabited the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea from northern Asia and the Aleutian Islands south to lower California. By 1911 it was close to extinction when an international treaty gave it complete protection. The worlds sea otter population is now estimated at between 25,000 and 40,000 individuals. Recent transplants have re-established the species along parts of the Pacific coast where it had been completely wiped out, including the coast of British Columbia.
Otters Touch
Schedule, results, statistics, photographs, news, and contacts. A social touch team based in Christchurch.
http://www.otterstouch.com/

Extractions: Profiles Phil Adams Raechel Adams Justin Conway Tim Elstob Struan George Chris Goldsbrough Leyton Hunt Mark Ludemann James Marsh Andrew Marsh Hamish McGill Raj Menon Brad Mooar Blair Norton Mark Rippin Cameron Ryan Nick Ryan Chris Wallace Latest Standings Team W L BP Pts Agent Orange Team Shizam Cool Runnings Otters The Shieks Banana's In another poor performance, the Otters went down to usual easy-beats The Shieks. It was a limp effort from the famous franchise as they capitulated with hardly firing a shot, scoring a meagre 65 runs then bowling without any penetration to concede a whopping 98 runs. Otters selectors are scratching their heads as the injury-ridden Blair Norton is still unavailable and the glove-wearing Andrew Marsh continues to avoid the court after some particularly cutting comments about his favourite gloves.
Dereham Otters Swimming Club: Home
Has news, squad criteria and training times, coach profiles, details of the Iceni Open, records, calendar, club shop. Teaches beginners and coaches competitive swimmers.
http://www.derehamotters.org.uk/
Enter
Has information about the club, its structures and policies; also news, calendar and club shop. The club offers learnto-swim, competitive swimming, life-saving and masters sections.
http://www.wootton-bassett-otters.info/
Otters Den River Lodge
River lodge on an island in the Blyde River. Offers accommodation and nature based activities including whitewater rafting.
http://www.ottersden.co.za/

Extractions: Home Page Otters Den is a River Lodge on an island in the Blyde River at the foot of the Drakensberg Escarpment. We offer fully catered accommodation and a variety of activities for nature lovers or adventure seekers. Whether you prefer more peaceful pursuits like birding, or adrenalin boosting excitement like white water rafting in the Blyde Canyon, our highly qualified and experienced staff will arrange it. Follow the links below to find out more: Rustic chalets in a riverine forest on an island in the Blyde River. Sumptuous meals, guided hikes, birding and fishing. Easy distance from the Kruger Park and Blyde Canyon -but why go there if you can stay and relax on your own island? Otters Den pioneered white water rafting in the Blyde Canyon and the Olifants Gorge. Choose from mild, family trips on the Lower Blyde, wild, spectacular trips in the Blyde Canyon and multi-day trips through the wilderness of the Olifants River. Dawn flights over African wilderness. Otters Den is the operational arm of a Balloon Airline flying over the largest block of private nature reserves in the World
The Otter Habitat And Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
York Haven, Pennsylvania based facility that is licensed by the state and federal governments to rehabilitate mammals and passerines (perching birds). This is the only facility in Pennsylvania which provides care for injured otters.
http://www.riverotters.org/

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