Otter subfamily (lutrinae) Mustelidae a subfamily. Is Mustelidae in larger size, adapt member aquatic life.
Otter subfamily is widely distributed in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas waters could be seen.
Otter subfamily members are good at swimming, the water is very flexible and prey in the water, where sea otter enhydra lutris spent almost his entire life in the sea, few boarded the land, and clumsy on land. Lying on the sea otters often wandering, often backstroke is the only marine mammals.
Sea otters distributed in the coastal zone of the North Pacific, because the precious fur been captured, is now very scarce. Mustelidae otter subfamily includes the largest member of the body, the sea otter is the larger size of mustelids, bigger size is living in the northern waters of the South American giant otter pteronura brasiliensis, up to 1.5 meters in length and weighing up to 30 kg. It is said that the giant otter can even kill crocodiles and anacondas glasses such large reptiles.
There are three types of otter, otter lutra lutra widely among the Ministry of Eurasia and North Africa, in many areas, most parts of China could be seen; slippery otter lutra perspicillata distributed in South and Southeast Asia, the country found in western Yunnan; Asian small-clawed otter amblonyx cinereus (right) located in the northeast of South East Asia and India, the country found in the South and Southwest. |
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