Otters...I thought they were territorial?

[Anthony Pearson]

My dear mother of 82 Whatsapped me this image from her paper today with the caption 'Competition!!!':



I thought otters spread out (unless this lot are all from one litter!!!)?

SEVEN of them!!!

 

[Joe Winstanley]

I saw this pic on the Guardian website during the week, see here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ga...hotos-of-the-day-duck-plague-and-a-delhi-demo

I don't recognise the tree in the background as looking anything like a native - it looks exotic to me, although it's hard to tell as the background is so blurry.

I thought they were Asian small clawed otters at first glance, but I'm no expert.

 

[Gavin Hoe-Richardson]

Been watching meerkats by the looks of things!

 

[Chris Jones]

I don't recognise the tree in the background as looking anything like a native - it looks exotic to me, although it's hard to tell as the background is so blurry.

I'm no botanist, but it looks a bit like bamboo to me.

 

[Iain Tutt]

I saw this pic on the Guardian website during the week, see here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ga...hotos-of-the-day-duck-plague-and-a-delhi-demo

I don't recognise the tree in the background as looking anything like a native - it looks exotic to me, although it's hard to tell as the background is so blurry.

I thought they were Asian small clawed otters at first glance, but I'm no expert.

The link does state Delhi, so perhaps India

 

[Rhys Perry]

Ha! That's some pretty **** journalism there! Or is it good journalism?

 

[Anthony Pearson]

Ian, the Delhi demo is one of the other photos. Mind you with the South Yorkshire police helicopter crew in trouble for filming people sunbathing in the nude, the weather must be subtropical in these parts, hence the bamboo-lined river banks.

 

[John McGough]

The link does state Delhi, so perhaps India

That is reference to the photo 4th from bottom.
It clearly states East Yorkshire, river Trent.

 

[Gavin Hoe-Richardson]

Only about the bottom mile of the Trent (left bank) is in East Yorkshire as I recall so limits the options. Unless they've shifted the boundaries again since I lived there.

 

[Stephen Crowhurst]

I've seen a group of three working Together in the past. I've a video of it somewhere. That was in mid winter.

 

[Mark Swaby]

Total fabrication,blurry background,tropical plant,Asian Otters and a fake story. A photo taken abroad that has been sold all over the world by Solent news a photo agency who make money publishing photos.I have seen as many as 15 otters together in Malaysia.

 

[Darren Scott]

Do these fella's like Tarka for dinner do you think?, bloody hope so.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...britain-this-year-after-absence-of-1300-years

 

[Joe Fletcher]

A couple of years ago I saw 5 Otters all swimming together on the Lower Severn
I assumed it was a family get together

 

[Neil Smart]

Otters and their kittens will stay to-gether until the offspring are old enough to fend for themselves. If it was endemic as some suggest we would be tripping over then on the bank.

Some anglers despite fishing for many years still have to see a wild Otter, however I have on a few occasions, but never as a group, just a single specimen.

Considering we as anglers are the 'eyes and ears' perhaps some sort of official monitoring would be of use to those who introduced the things in the first place?

We observe in the 'real' issues of what is going on with our countryside, perhaps the truth might be a tad uncomfortable.