Howard Tews had a hunch. A bit of research and scouting had told him where there were beavers, otters would likely be in the area as well. Two days into the state’s first otter trapping season in more ...

Parents need to know that Sam Garton’s “Otter Loves Halloween” is part of the “Otter” series featuring a super-cute Otter, her deadpan toy friends, and Otter Keeper, the adult human in the home. In ...

The minute I heard about Dr. Miriam Darlington's latest book Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World, I couldn't wait to get my eyes on it. Years ago I had the luxury of watching ...

MILTON – "She likes me!" squealed a little girl leaning against the glass of an otter's new home at the Blue Hills Trailside Museum. Inches away, the otter, 15, watched people as they stared and took ...

Few animals have enjoyed the sort of resurgence that sea otters have. The second smallest marine mammal, they once ranged all through the northern Pacific Rim from California up to Alaska, across the ...

RING OF BRIGHT WATER (211 pp.)—Gavin Maxwell—Duffon ($5). Pets? Poet Gavin Maxwell, grandson of famed Natural Historian Sir Herbert Maxwell, has investigated them all: a lemur, a bush baby, a wildcat, ...

He’s an aquatic mammal who models healthy eating habits and lifestyle choices for young children. He’s been the subject of books and plays, and now Potter the Otter has an exhibit named after him at ...

RAVEN SEEK THY BROTHER by Gavin Maxwell. 210 pages. Dutton. $6.95. Gavin Maxwell is a kilted Scots eccentric who likes to live in conditions of barbarous discomfort in the bleakest of bleak houses on ...