Description of the otter`s solitary lifestyle and interaction with other otters, its range of sounds, methods of fishing, its breeding season, where and when it sleeps, what it eats and many other facts.
Photocopied extract from `The Handbook of Scottish Mammals` edited by Gordon B Corbet and Stephen Harris, pp 37-43, 424-31, 461-80.
Information about hedgehogs, otters and seals giving descriptions, variation, distribution, habitat, social organisation and behaviour, feeding, breeding, population, predators and mortality, parasites and disease, relations with man and literature.