Otters: ecology, behaviour, and conservation

1. Otter ecology and its background 2. Pen-pictures. Thirteen otters of the world: some natural history 3. Evolutionary relationships, questions and methods of otter ecology 4. Habitats 5. Groups and loners: social organization 6. Scent-marking and interactions: social behaviour 7. Diets 8. Resources: about fish and other prey 9. Otters fishing: hunting behaviour and strategies 10. Thermo- insulation: a limiting factor 11. Populations, recruitment and competition 12. Survival and mortality 13. Syntheses: challenges to otter survival 14. Otters, people and conservation