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

Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 1 - 58 (April 2000)

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WHITE OTTERS

We live in Houston County, which is located in Tennessee west of Nashville. We found two otters run over in the road. One of them was a dark brown color and the other one was solid white with two black dots on its head. It has a pink nose and pink feet. The only information we can find on otters states that the colors are dark, brown, or cinnamon. So we was wondering about this white one. Is it common or not? If you would please give us some kind of response. We got you address off the WEB and it stated if that if there were any questions, comments, or suggestions to e-mail here. If you don't have any information please let us know where we can try other places.

Thank you,
Dwayne & Crystal Dew
dews@teleclipse.net

OTTER VET GROUP

Dear colleagues,

Sorry for not answering any sooner.

I am very pleased we are now a little group of vets interested in otters. I have to collect the emails addresses of 10 more vets of whom I have only their normal addresses.

In a near future I think it would be nice to know what literature each of us has got about otters.

If you have any other ideas of what we can do together, please tell me.

For now we have to answer two questions coming from two vets :

• How many lobes there are in the liver of Aonyx cinerea (Asian Small Clawed Otter) (Eva Petit)?
• Is there a cartilage boneplate in the third eyelid of Lutra lutra (Eurasian Otter) and is it possible there is a procidence of the third lid for a while like it is the case for cats (Alfred Melissen)?

Thanks in advance

Best wishes

Hélène Jacques

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