Otter Sentence Examples

How retired the otter manages to live here!

The Barbary otter is present in the Majerda and in some of the salt lakes.

You can easily recognize the paw print of the otter by the webbed toes.

Otter with the water hairs removed, the strongest fur suited for linings, is here taken as the standard.

Here are to be found yak, wild asses (kyang), several varieties of deer, musk deer and Tibetan antelope (Pantholops); also wild sheep (the bharal of the Himalaya), Ovis hodgsoni and possibly Ovis poli, together with wild goats, bears (in large numbers in the north-eastern districts), leopards, otter, wolves, wild cats, foxes, marmots, squirrels, monkeys and wild dogs.

The only river with traffic of commercial importance is Otter Creek, flowing northwards into the southern part of Lake Champlain and having a navigable length of 8 m.

The sable has quite disappeared, being found only on the Urals; the beaver may be trapped at a few places in Minsk, and the otter is very rare.

This was the first "Hittite" monument discovered in modern times (early 18th century, by the Swede Otter, an emissary of Louis XIV.).

The musk-ox comes in thousands every year to the great northern lakes, while the mink, marten, beaver, otter, ermine and musk-rat are sought by the fur-trader.

The otter is found in some of the rivers, which are also frequented, near their mouths, by turtles.

To 1 First described by the Turk, Haj j i Khalifa, in the 37th century; first seen by the Swedish traveller Otter in 1736, and first published in 1840 in Ritter's Erdkunde, iii., after a drawing by Major Fischer, made in 1837.

A considerable native export trade in wood, charcoal, bamboo, medicines, paper umbrellas, oranges, otter skins and tobacco leaf is carried on.

Of the smaller forbearing animals, the beaver was long ago exterminated, the otter is seen very rarely, and the mink only in the most isolated districts;.

Rabbits and squ'rrels are numerous in nearly all parts of the state; skunks, weasels, muskrats and woodchucks are common; there are some racoons; mink are frequently taken in the Adirondacks; and a few otter remain.

The caribou, moose, antelope, mountain sheep, beaver, otter and mink are scarce.

It stands on a square peninsula flanked by the western and eastern harbours and by the Otter river.

In British Columbia the puma or cougar, sometimes called the panther and the American lion, still frequently occurs; and in all parts the common fox and the silver fox, the lynx, beaver, otter, marten, fisher, wolverene, mink, skunk and other fur-bearing animals.

The otter, martin and badger may be mentioned among the rarer wild animals, and the weasel, ermine and pole-cat among the more common.

The supply of some of the most valuable, such as sable, silver and natural black fox, sea otter and ermine, which are all taken from animals of a more or less shy nature, does very gradually decrease with persistent hunting and the encroachment of man upon the districts where they live, but the climate of these vast regions is so cold and inhospitable that the probabilities of man ever permanently inhabiting them in numbers sufficient to scare away or exterminate the fur-bearing wild animals is unlikely.

The sea otter, one of the richest and rarest of furs, especially for men's wear, is an exception to this unhairing process, which it does not require, the hair being of the same length as the wool, silky and bright, quite the reverse of the case of other aquatic animals.

Most of the best river otter comes from Canada and the United States and averages 36 X18 in.

It has fur similar to otter, is of aquatic habits, being web-footed with spurs of a cock and the bill of a duck.

Small quantities of good beaver are dyed in Russia occasionally, and white hairs put in so well that an effect similar to sea otter is obtained.

Nutria also is prepared to represent sealskin, and in its natural colour, after the long hairs are plucked out, it is sold as otter or beaver.

The wool is, however, poor compared to the otter and beaver, and the pelt thin and in no way comparable to them in strength.

Sold as Otter, pulled and dyed..

Otter with the water hairs, the strongest fur suited for motoring garments, is taken as the standard.

Northern Ontario is still a valuable fur-bearing and hunting country, moose, caribou, fox, bear, otter, mink and skunk being found in large quantities.

It is to the water what the other weasels are to the land, or martens to the trees, being as essentially aquatic in its habits as the otter, beaver, or musk-rat, and spending perhaps more of its time in the water than it does on land.

Otter hunting, which is less practised now than formerly, begins just as all other hunting is drawing to a close.

When the otter "vents" or comes to the surface to breathe, his muzzle only appears above water, and when he is viewed or traced by the mud he stirs up, or by air bubbles, the hounds are laid on.

Notwithstanding the strong scent of the otter, he often escapes the hounds, and then a cast has to be made.

Should the otter be transfixed by a spear, the person who threw it goes into the water and raises the game over his head on the spear's point.

Hippopotamus, otter and the wild boar are numerous; a species of wild ox of small size with black horns and very agile is also found.

The porcupine, the squirrel, the civet cat, the ichneumon and the otter are common.

The prime minister, Admiral von Otter, resigned shortly after the end of the session, and was succeeded by Bostrom, the expremier, who at the request of the king again assumed office.

From the end of the 18th century the Russian fur traders had settlements here for the capture of the seal and the sea otter and the blue and the Arctic fox.

Under the American regime seal fishing off the Aleutians save by the natives has never been legal, but the depletion of the Pribilof herd, the almost complete extinction of the sea otter, and the rapid decrease of the foxes and other fur animals, have threatened the Aleuts (as the natives are commonly called) with starvation.

The walrus is now found mainly far N.; the sea otter, once fairly common throughout the Aleutian district, is now rarely found even on the remoter islands; the fur seal, whose habitat is the Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea, ha .s been considerably reduced in numbers by pelagic hunting.

The walrus, hunted for its ivory tusks, and the sea otter, rarest and most valuable of Alaskan fur animals, are near extermination; the blue fox is now bred for its pelt on the Aleutians and the southern continental coast; the skins of the black and silver fox are extremely rare, and in general the whole fur industry is discouragingly decadent.

The black bear, wolf, catamount, wolverine, wild cat, fox, beaver, racoon, marten, sable, woodchuck, skunk, otter, mink, rabbit and squirrel are also found.

In the southern and western islands the fauna is restricted mainly to foxes, bats, rats, mice, the sea otter, the penguin and other aquatic birds, and various cetaceans in the surrounding waters.

The fauna originally included buffalo, elk, deer, wolves, bear, lynx, beaver, otter, porcupine and puma, but civilization has driven them all out entirely.

The radial or fan-shaped markings known as Oldhamia were first detected in this series, but are now known from Cambrian beds in otter countries; in default of other satisfactory fossils, the series of Bray and Howth has long been held to be Cambrian.

There are ferries at St Catherine's and Otter, and piers at Tarbert, Ardrishaig, Kilmory, Crarae, Furnace, Inveraray, Strachur and elsewhere.

Before the advent of the white man Nebraska was full of wild mammals, the buffalo, elk, black and white tailed deer, antelope, bears, timber wolves, panthers (pumas), lynx, otter and mink being common.

They killed and skinned the otter and, taking the skin with them, sought shelter for the night with Rodmar the giant.

The otter has an elongated, low body, short limbs, short broad feet, with five toes on each, connected together by webs, and all with short, moderately strong, compressed, curved, pointed claws.

As the otter lives almost exclusively on fish, it is rarely met with far from water, and usually frequents the shores of brooks, rivers, lakes and, in some localities, the sea itself.

The otter is found in localities suitable to its habits throughout Great Britain and Ireland, though less abundantly than formerly, for, being destructive to fish, it is rarely allowed to live in peace when its haunts are discovered.

It was formerly the practice to kill the otter with long spears, which the huntsmen carried; now the quarry is picked up and "tailed," or run into by the pack.

The entire length of the animal from nose to end of tail is about 4 ft., so that the body is considerably larger and more massive than that of the English otter.

The wolf, fox, lynx (" wildcat "), otter, mink and beaver have become rare.

The water -loving otter is the only amphibious member of the family and is one of the largest European mustelids.

A strong mellow ruby colored ale, brewed using malt made from Maris Otter barley and the finest English aromatic hops.

The outstanding wildlife interest includes aspen, juniper, capercaillie, red squirrel, crested tit, blood red slave maker ants and otter.

However nothing has ever matched Maris Otter for the quality of the cask beer it produces.

There are at least 13 wildlife species in the park known to be globally threatened including black caiman, giant otter and ocelot.

The area surrounding the property is Tarka the otter country, the central character made famous in the book of Henry Williamson.

Some are mainly arboreal, others forage on the ground and otter civets are equipped for an aquatic existence.

The Upper Bann contains the NI Priority Species otter and river water crowfoot.

In some cases it may be possible to build an otter culvert into a new road scheme to allow their safe passage.

Velvet is a 4 year old otter rex doe and she has been at Kirkby Pet Welfare since she was very young.

Did you notice him then, secret and shy as an otter, transferring an epithet?

The otter was almost extinct in Norfolk by the early 1980s.

Because Otter stand behind what they believe, they offer an unconditional lifetime guarantee.

The sight raises the heartbeat of the passer-by who momentarily imagines this is an otter.

The road improvement also included a conservation scheme for various species and habitats it incorporates a bat hibernaculum and otter passages.

British Waterways has constructed an otter holt from logs to encourage otters to return to the canal for breeding.

The basis of site selection for otter is mainly breeding holts or holt complexes, together with the immediate surroundings and cover.

Two barn owl nest boxes were erected and an otter chamber holt dug.

I am also told that if mink hounds should chance upon an otter, they can be called off.

They had Otter Ale behind the bar, and a splendid original Wurlitzer jukebox in front.

Of the rivers draining from the plateau, only the Glenarm has records of Priority Species the otter and the river jelly lichen.

I was enjoying the sunset when I spotted an otter floating on its back under the pier, crac.. .

We were also lucky enough to see both the small clawed and Eurasian otter.

The inquisitive, playful otter is one of Britain ' s best known and well loved wild animals.

Completed on site The creation of the giant otter took careful preparation, explained Michelle Cain.

Each sea otter was given rations of lobsters costing $ 500 per day.

At the end of the beach the river otter flows into the sea.

I had gone out one morning with my gun to procure a few fresh ptarmigan, accompanied by Big Otter.

Two Dragonflys were issued to every coastal air station, again replacing the Sea Otter in the air-sea rescue role.

Yesterday was Bamburgh beach and Berwick on Tweed, tomorrow the otter sanctuary in the North Pennines.

The otter shrews are also found in West and central Africa.

The two single legs of each back strop are shackled on to the links at each lower corner of the otter doors.

Photograph showing close-up of an otter trawl, taken around 1900 Open A steam winch was used to haul the trawls.

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Their hounds are a raggle-taggle bunch of pure and cross-bred otter hounds and ex- foxhounds.

She befriends a pair of birds, nurses an otter back to health and helps mend a seagull's leg.

Empire Bluffs is a mile and a half advanced trail, which winds along the dunes and offers spectacular views of the Lake Michigan shoreline; Platte Plains is an easy four and a half mile trail that winds around Otter Lake.

The medium length tail, known as an otter tail, is wide at the base and tapers at the end.

It comes in colors such as terra cotta, blue, rawhide, charcoal, sagebrush, timber, lodge red, otter, deep chestnut.

There are many different projects like sea otter, frog, elephant, polar bear, snake, fox and owl.

The Otter exhibit was also recently updated and is now home to North American River Otters, who love to put on a show for zoo guests.

The chestnut covers considerable areas in Prigord, Limousin and Beam; resinotis trees (firs, pines, larches, &c.) form fine forests in the Vosges and The indigenous fauna include the bear, now very rare but still found in the Alps and Pyrenees, the wolf, harbouring chiefly in the Cvennes and Vosges, but in continually decreasing areas; the fox, marten, badger, weasel, otter, the beaver in the extreme south of the Rhne valley, and in the Alps the marmot; the red deer and roe deer are preserved in many of the forests, and the wild boar is found in several districts; the chamois and wild goat survive in the Pyrenees and Alps.

Pop. of urban district (Igo') 3495 It is pleasantly situated in the rich valley of the small river Otter.

The coati, marten, skunk and otter (Lutra paranensis) are widely distributed.