European river otter european otter eurasian otter lutra lutra tracks in snow on partly frozen pond germany.
River otter prints in mud.
Otter tracks in the mud by the river wear.
Sea otter enhydra.
River otter trail heading toward the camera and raccoon heading away.
Otter prints can be found at the edge of river banks in gravel sand and mud and on tarmac if they have just left the river.
A pair of river otter tracks in wet sand.
Webbing doesn t always show in tracks and a trail drag may be visible in good substrate.
A pair of older otter tracks in sand near a river.
Look for signs of otter on muddy or snowy river banks where you can find prints and trough from belly sliding into the water.
River otters usually feed on slow moving fish such as carp mud minnows stickle backs and suckers that are from four to six inches long.
Tracks of a river otter in snow with a 6 inch ruler for scale.
The tracks of a group of river otters.
Close up of oriental small clawed otter amblonyx cinereus 5 years old lying in front of white background.
At the top are the tracks of a raccoon.
Captive close up of a sea otter floating on its back point defiance zoo tacoma washington usa.
Running stride is 12 24 300 600 mm.
They have five toes on their feet and short claws that give their prints a pointed look.
They also have five toes a distinctive sign that it s an otter print.
Otters frequently come out of the water and run along the river banks like this pair did.
An otter track is 3 1 4 80 mm wide or more about 4 long and often show only heel pad and claws.
A very nice set of otter tracks in fine mud.
Otter tracks in the mud by the river wear.
These are 2 7cm long will contain fish bones and scales be tarry and black.
In other words otter droppings.
Otters share many characteristics with their weasel family relatives.
Like other mustelids otter feet have 5 toes claws and a c shaped palm pad.
A domestic cat s tracks can be seen in the upper right corner of the photo.
River otters can smell concentrations of fish in upstream ponds that drain into small slow moving streams and will follow that smell to its origin even in urban areas.
Tracks in mud are likely to be more distinctive than tracks in dry sand.
European otter lutra lutra trail on snow and frozen lake at midwinter finland.
Two otter trails follow the river s edge.
Toes fan out widely but webbing rarely prints except in mud.
Sometimes only 4 toes show in the track and sometimes the substrate the snow sand mud etc is so poor that you can t see the tracks clearly.
