Their silky fur is considered diamonds of the fur business. Velvety and thick, the smooth, silk pelage of the smooth-coated otter is sold for 350 Chinese yuan or more in Tibet and for 90-100 dollars in Thailand leather factories. Nobody knows exactly how many of these otters are left in India or South east Asia. […]
Photos: ‘An Otter Bit Me!’ Cries The Crocodile
This is nature at its best. On a trip to India’s Jim Corbett National Park, one person witnessed not tigers as he had imagined, but a strange interaction between a crocodile and an otter with the prey-predator roles completely reversed! A crocodile basking in the sun was taken completely by surprise when an otter came […]
Tea-Coffee Plantations Changing Habitat of Western Ghat Otters
According to a new research published in mongabay.com’s open access journal Tropical Conservation Society (TCS), the Asian small-clawed otter is widespread in the Western Ghats but can’t keep up with changes brought to the region by humans.