IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
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Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 59 - 99 (October 2000)

Note from the Editor
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In the last issue there was a very big mistake for which I have to apologise to the authors of the manuscript. I cannot explain how it happened but in the end we printed the draft version and not the revised version of the manuscript 'Records of the Giant Otter, Pteronura brasiliensis, from Guyana'. On page 64 of this issue you can find the erratum written by the authors (A. Barnett, B. Shapley, S. Lehman, E. Henry and P. Benjamin) and to which I have nothing more to add. Starting on page 65, the final version is included.
[Online Version: this was corrected in the version presented]

This brings me to a general point of concern - many manuscripts sent to the Bulletin are written in a very slovenly way, with missing tables, missing or extra references, etc. This causes a lot of extra work to both the reviewers and to me. I therefore strongly ask all authors to check their manuscripts before (!) sending them to me, and not to send me the first erratum some minutes after the draft version has been sent. I know this can happen in the hectic turmoil of daily life, but when I have several versions with only small differences it makes my work definitely harder.

Thanks to Dave Rowe-Rowe, Silke Hauer, Lionel Lafontaine and Andreas Kranz who sent me information on recent publications.

The printing of this issue was sponsored by Aventis Germany.

I would like to ask everybody to think about possible new sponsors for the Bulletin. It is quite a task to organise the money for printing and postage twice a year and any help would be welcome.

Kevin Roche (Trebon) again functions as a reader for those contributions which have not been reviewed by at least one native speaker. Alvaro Soutullo (Uruguay) translated some of the abstracts into Spanish. I have to thank the 'Otter Bulletin Team' - Barbara Gutleb-Rainer (Oosterbeek), Hans van den Berg (Wageningen), Els Hoogsteede-Veens and Erwin Hellegering (GRAFISCH SERVICE CENTRUM VAN GILS, Wageningen) - for their continuing help. Tobias and Helena once again arranged the envelopes.

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