IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
© IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group

Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 1- 57 (April 1999)

Otter, Otter
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Otter, otter, churning in the bight
Who turned on in otter eye, the look of fright
Playful, frolicsome
Full of fun, handsome
Buoy him up, hold up a beckoning light
Across waterways, he always free ranged
Till man crossed his path and fishing nets arranged
For a crime not his, otter is now arraigned
Trapped, in sheer survival instinct cuts the net loose
Fishing net, easy to mend and reuse, once thread rearranged
But a thread broken, in Nature's net, the web of life is a noose
A rule true, for trutta, teal or tiger, the otter or moose.

(Inspired by William Blake's poem)

by :
Prof. J. V. Ramana Rao (Retd.)
Wildlife Biology Section
Department of Zoology
Osmania University
HYDERABAD - 500 007
Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

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