Otters are highly charismatic and popular animals of very considerable concern to
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Abstract The Neotropical otter Lontra longicaudis is a widespread semiaquatic carnivore
living in a wide variety of environments in both fresh‐water and salt‐water ecosystems. We …

Diets of mammals are increasingly being inferred from identification of hard parts from prey
eaten and recovered in fecal remains (scats). Frequencies with which particular prey …

We evaluated the biogeographic factors that influence composition and diversity of the
Neotropical otter diet. We also tested whether Lontra longicaudis selected fish in its diet per …

São Paulo is the most developed state in Brazil and little of its native vegetation remains. In
Luiz Antonio and Santa Rita do Passa Quatro municipalities, only small fragments of cerrado …

Opossums are the most diverse and ecologically important group of New World marsupials,
although only the Virginia opossum is familiar to North American residents. In fact, many …

The diet of the neotropical otter (Carnivora, Mustelidae) was studied from September 1995
to March 1997, in Volta Velha, an Atlantic Forest reserve in the coastal plain of Santa …

The diet of some sympatric carnivore species in three Atlantic Forest remnants of Southern
Brazil was studied in order to assess their food niche. We conducted monthly field trips …

Use of shelters by the Neotropical river otter (Lontra longicaudis) was studied in a head-
water stream of the Atlantic Forest, southeastern Brazil, during 1994. L. longicaudis used …

The factors affecting habitat selection by smooth-coated otter Lutra perspicillata were
studied along the Periyar Lake within the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India, between …