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The Otter
James Williams
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Description for The Otter
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, full colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 922.
Back from the brink of extinction, the otter is making a come-back in Britain today. Author James Williams, a life-long enthusiast of this fascinating, enigmatic creature, dispells some of the mysteries in this beautifully-illustrated book:
- Reasons for the near-disappearance of the otter in the 1980s and the reasons for its recovery today
- Why otters patrol their territories and fight for them
- Breeding, natural history and behaviour
- Unusual otter information: blind otters, the work of otter groups, the difficulties of introducing otters in the wild, their surprising ability to live close to man
- Otters as predators – their impact on fish stocks, the difficulty ... Read more
- Tracking otters through their prints, and through their spraints
- Helping the otter to survive in the 21st century
Product Details
Publisher
Merlin Unwin Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
925g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Shropshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906122225
SKU
V9781906122225
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Ref
99-2
About James Williams
James Williams spent a lifetime otter watching, from his boyhood in the Lake District, to his adult life in Somerset. He taught English in Taunton, but his west-country residence gave him the opportunity to study and record the changing fortunes of this elusive and fascinating mammal, from its near-extinction in the mid-1980s to its remarkable, though precarious, recovery today. ... Read more
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