Prey Selection by Marine-Coastal River Otters (Lontra canadensis) in Newfoundland, Canada

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Cote, D., Stewart, H. M. J., Gregory, R. S., Gosse, J., Reynolds, J. J., Stenson, G. B., Miller, E. H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2008
• Subjects: Feature Articles; Canada; Hake; Gunnel; Bonavista Bay; Newfoundland; Lontra
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/89/4/1001; https://doi.org/10.1644/07-MAMM-A-192.1

Previous studies have suggested that diets of river otters ( Lontra canadensis ) vary in response to seasonal shifts in prey availability, and that they select slowly moving fish of moderate size. To test these assumptions for marine-coastal river otters in Newfoundland, Canada, we reconstructed die...