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Life of an Asian Small Clawed Otter

Life of an Asian Small Clawed Otter. By Angel. Table of Contents. habitat. Food and water. Daily Behavior. Family Structures. Interesting facts. Bibliography. Habitat. Fresh water: rivers and streams Indonesia, Southern China, the Philippines, Southern India, and Southeast Asia

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Life of an Asian Small Clawed Otter

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  1. Life of anAsian Small Clawed Otter By Angel

  2. Table of Contents habitat Food and water Daily Behavior Family Structures Interesting facts Bibliography

  3. Habitat • Fresh water: rivers and streams • Indonesia, Southern China, the Philippines, Southern India, and Southeast Asia • Live in wet and warm climates • Sleep in tight spaces • When it swims it looks like a fish home

  4. Food and Water • Crabs • Mussels • Frogs • small fish • Crustaceans • Snakes • Pounds food with a rock • Drink 20 to 25%of water of their body weight home

  5. Daily Behavior • Sleep during the day • Play fetch by themselves • Can hold their breath up to 4 minutes • Are nocturnal • More then 12 calls • Hunted by humans for fur • Mom cares for them up to a year • Taught how to swim, catch food, groom their fur, dive, and slide down slopes home

  6. Family Structures • 1 born at a time • Within 1 day they are active • No teeth and eyes closed when born • Pups can swim at 2 weeks old • Feed on their mother for a year • Most mothers have 6 pups • Males stay with female for 3 days after mating • Mate at any time of year • Pups cry when mother is gone • Pups can float when they are born • Family groups of 12 home

  7. Interesting Facts • Endangered but growing • Humans hunt them • Pollution kills them • Groom fur every day • Fur on feet and all the way up • Special muscles help close ears and nose • Smallest species of otters • 60 days after mating female has pups home

  8. Bibliography Cinerea, Amblonyx. Asian small clawed otters . Nationalzoo. Si. edu/ animalsasia Wildlife and plants. Tarrytown: Marshall CavendishCorporation, 2002 Lepthien, Emilie U. Otters. Chicago: Children's Press,1994 home

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