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Otters : ecology, behaviour, and conservation  Cover Image Book Book

Otters : ecology, behaviour, and conservation / Hans Kruuk.

Kruuk, H. (Hans) (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0198565879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780198565871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xii, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2007, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Reprinted 2007 (with corrections)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Otter ecology and its background -- 2. Thirteen otters of the world : some natural history -- 3. Evolutionary relationships, questions and methods of otter ecology -- 4. Habitats -- 5. Groups and loners : social organization -- 6. Scent marking and interactions : social behaviour -- 7. Diet -- 8. Resources : about fish and other prey -- 9. Otters fishing : hunting behaviour and strategies -- 10. Thermo-insulation : a limiting factor -- 11. Populations, recruitment and competition -- 12. Survival and mortality -- 13. Syntheses : challenges to otter survival -- 14. Otters, people and conservation.
Subject: Otters.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library QL 737 .C25 K785 2007 30536570 General Collection Available -

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