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Lutra maculicollis |
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Loutre ŕ cou tacheté |
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Spotted-necked Otter |
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Average length: 100 cm (with a tail of 40 cm); weight : between 3 and 5 kg. Thick fur is dark brown. Stomach is lighter. Chin, sides of the face and chest are fawn and mackled with brown spots. |
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Lakes, rivers, streams and torrents. |
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Live solitary or in small groups composed of 5 to 20 individuals. They are mainly active at dawn and at dusk. They are excellent swimmers, doubtless the most endowed of all freshwater otters. They are almost exclusively aquatic and rarely venture more than 10 m away from the water. They are shy and rarely observed. They rest between the roots of trees, under rocks or in dens on the bank. |
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Fish, amphibians et crustaceans. |
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After a gestation period of 2 months, females give birth to 1 to 3 young. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
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