Asian small-clawed otter coats are incredibly dense, containing around 450,000 hairs per square inch of fur. (For comparison, the average person has 100,000 hairs on their head.) ...

Otter and mink are semi-aquatic mammals that resemble one another in quite a few ways. In fact, they are so similar that ...

This now also applies to the Asian small-clawed otter, a species that hadn't been seen in Nepal for 186 years. Forest officers found a juvenile otter at the confluence of the Rangun Khola river ...

Asian small-clawed otters, as their name suggests, lack the longer claws of other otter species. The dexterity required to dig up and pry open shellfish (and to unfasten watches, ...

Small-clawed otters still live across Southeast Asia and into India. The last time they were officially seen in Nepal was 1839, so it's no surprise that they were considered extinct there.

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FORT FISHER, N.C. — With the addition of three more Asian small-clawed otter pups this year, Leia and Quincy’s family of eight needs new digs at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF).

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In the video above, a group of small-clawed otters—known as a lodge—currently living at the Bronx Zoo can be see frolicking about in their habitats. They’re not doing much, per se, except ...

A zoo owner in Arizona donated the Asian small-clawed otter. For the past 14 months, Hadsell has been training "Splash" and turning sceptics into believers.

Don't get it twisted. Despite being so small and cute, these Small-Clawed Asian Otters can get seriously ticked. In the video the woman shared, the two animals were demanding that their breakfast ...