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Small environmental concentrations of methylmercury can thus readily accumulate to potentially harmful concentrations in fish (e.g. pike, bass), fish-eating wildlife (e.g. otters) and people.

Terriers were originally bred, mainly in the British Isles, during the Middle Ages for hunting smaller rodent and vermin such as rabbits and rats, foxes, badgers and otters.

They quickly ruled out the scourge's most likely source: a bacterium known to cause jaundice, as it wasn't found in any of the dead otters.

The animals' insides, she found, were bright yellow—a sure sign of liver damage.

But Six, Rex, and the White Knight grow suspicious.

Lastly at the Tropical Trek, they observed agile gibbons, playful otters, capuchins and sugar gliders.

Like all sloths, Hoffman's Sloths spend most of their time hanging upside-down from trees, move very slowly and have extremely slow metabolisms.

In particular, the Indigenous People’s Council for Marine Mammals has become one of the key bodies incorporating management and co-management regimes dealing with beluga whales, polar bears, harbour seals, sea otters, Steller sea lions, walruses and other marine mammals.

The kinds of things that sea otters eat in California are some of the same things we like to eat, too.

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Fur Harvesters Auction Inc. (FHA), “Where the World Comes to Buy Wild Fur”, will be hosting information sessions on the grading of several wild fur species, including muskrat, mink, beaver, raccoon, marten, fisher, fox, coyote and seals.

The largest , finest and most diverse offering of Wild Fur in the world:  Raccoon; Beaver, Coyote; Fisher; Otter; Lynx; Lynx Cat; Can/Am Sable;  Wild Mink; Red/Cross and Grey Fox; Musquash; as well as Squirrel, Ermine, Badger, Opossum, Nutria, Ringtails, Skunk, Bear, Wolf and Wolverine.

VANCOUVER, CANADA—When several sea otters began showing up dead in April 2007 along the coast of California's Monterey Bay, wildlife officials called otter expert Melissa Miller to investigate.

As for other possibilities, “Sea otters don't take drugs, they don't eat toxic mushrooms or plants because they're marine mammals, and California weather isn't so crazy that we'd see 15 sea otters struck by lightning,” Miller said here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW).

Since the discovery, California officials have taken measures to control the outbreak at Pinto Lake, but the discovery illustrates how marine mammals like sea otters act as warning signals for near-shore ecosystems, Miller said.

This is largely an adaptation to their diet--although they are omnivores and will eat insects, small reptiles, and carrion when they have an opportunity, sloths subsist mainly on leaves, shoots and buds.