Saliveros, Alexander M Bowden-Parry, Madison McAusland, Fraser Boogert, Neeltje J
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Royal Society open science
Foraging plays a vital role in animal life histories, and learning whether unfamiliar food items are palatable is a key part of this process. Animals that engage in extractive foraging must also learn how to overcome the protective measures of their prey. While otters (subfamily Lutrinae) are a taxon known for their extractive foraging behaviour, h...
Findlay, Melanie
The Eurasian otter Lutra lutra and its resting places are protected by EU and UK legislation. Consultant ecologists must identify resting sites so they can be protected during developments. Currently, consultants usually use field-signs, but radio-telemetry studies indicate this may be unreliable. Camera-traps could be used to identify resting site...
Lélias, Marie-Loup Lemasson, Alban Lodé, Thierry
Otter species are known to fluctuate intraspecifically from a solitary lifestyle to group-living arrangements. By examining what is known about habitat use and foraging style in otters of 13 different species, based on 93 studied sites, we assessed (1) the relationship between social habits and preferred habitats, (2) the relationship between speci...
Saliveros, Alexander M. Blyth, Eleanor C. Easter, Carrie Hume, Georgina V. McAusland, Fraser Hoppitt, William Boogert, Neeltje J.
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Royal Society Open Science
Social learning, where information is acquired from others, is taxonomically widespread. There is growing evidence that animals selectively employ ‘social learning strategies', which determine e.g. when to copy others instead of learning asocially and whom to copy. Furthermore, once animals have acquired new information, e.g. regarding profitable r...
Allison, Mari-Lisa Reed, Rebecca Michels, Emile Boogert, Neeltje J.
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Royal Society Open Science
Object play refers to the seemingly non-functional manipulation of inanimate items when in a relaxed state. In juveniles, object play may help develop skills to aid survival. However, why adults show object play remains poorly understood. We studied potential drivers and functions of the well-known object play behaviour of rock juggling in Asian sm...
Watanabe, Tatiane Terumi Negrão Dubovi, Edward J Evans, Dawn E Langohr, Ingeborg M Ferracone, Jaqueline Ezelle, Liz B Del Piero, Fabio
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Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc
A concurrent outbreak of infection by canine parvovirus 2b (CPV-2b) and Clostridium difficile producing A and/or B toxins occurred in Asian small-clawed otters (Amblonyx cinereus). The 5 clinically affected otters were 6- to 24-mo-old intact females that had severe diarrhea, dehydration, were acutely comatose, and died 1-4 d after the onset of clin...
Gupta, Nishikant Tiwari, Varun Everard, Mark Savage, Melissa Hussain, Syed Ainul Chadwick, Michael A Johnson, Jeyaraj Antony Nawab, Asghar Belwal, Vinod K
Kuiters, A.T. de Groot, G.A. Lammertsma, D.R. Jansman, H.A.H. Bovenschen. J., Jan
Jaarlijks wordt in opdracht van het ministerie van Economische Zaken de Nederlandse otterpopulatie genetisch gemonitord. Daarmee wordt een vinger aan de pols gehouden voor de ontwikkeling van de genetische status van de populatie. Deze vorm van monitoring, waarbij gebruik wordt gemaakt van DNAgeïsoleerd uit uitwerpselen en doodvondsten, maakt het t...
Kuiters, A.T. de Groot, G.A. Lammertsma, D.R. Jansman, H.A.H. Bovenschen, J.
Jaarlijks wordt de Nederlandse otterpopulatie genetisch gemonitord in opdracht van het Ministerie vanEconomische Zaken. Daarmee wordt een vinger aan de pols gehouden wat betreft de ontwikkeling van degenetische status van de populatie. Deze vorm van monitoring, waarbij gebruik wordt gemaakt van DNAgeïsoleerd uit uitwerpselen en doodvondsten, maakt ...
van der Grift, E.A. Jansman, H.A.H.
