. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. pots where theotter lands and runs up the bank; forotters, like most other wild creatures, followone anothers lead. Causeswhich the blundering eyes ofhumans may not detect areno doubt answerable for theclaims of one landing placeover another. It may be theset of the eddy from a half-sunk willow stub, the angle atwhich the bank rises, thechances of cover and conceal-ment—any one or all of fiftypoints may determine theadvantages of a particularlanding place. But at allevents it will, if otters arcabundant, be paddled into areg
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. pots where theotter lands and runs up the bank; forotters, like most other wild creatures, followone anothers lead. Causeswhich the blundering eyes ofhumans may not detect areno doubt answerable for theclaims of one landing placeover another. It may be theset of the eddy from a half-sunk willow stub, the angle atwhich the bank rises, thechances of cover and conceal-ment—any one or all of fiftypoints may determine theadvantages of a particularlanding place. But at allevents it will, if otters arcabundant, be paddled into aregular run. Here you willsee the otters footprint in themud, the prints of four roundtoes like no other creaturestrack. This footprint is called * Lord Lilford on Birds: Being a collection o£ informal and unpublished writings by the late President ofthe British Ornithologists Union, with contributed papers upon Falconry and Otter Hunting, his favourite by Aubyn Trevor-Battye, , , , etc., with drawings by A. Thorburn. 1 vol., 16s. 252. Photo bu the Scliolaifiio Photograpjiic OTTEE. by otter hunters, the seal. Other signs,such as remains of digested food (in huntingparlance spraints) will be noticed onhillocks of the grass or on stones whichshow themselves above the water. Althoughsome streams are more favoured than others,there is probably not one in the countrythat is not visited at times by otters, andthe attention of even unobservant persons isoccasionally arrested by the spectacle of apartly-eaten fish lying on the bank. Theotter first begins to eat those parts aboutthe head, except when dealing with aneel, when it commences with the tail of its cautious and secret mannerof life, an otter will often continue tofrequent a stream for a long time, and beunsuspected. Indeed, many a stream hasheld otters from time immemorial, and yetno one has guessed this, until the comingof a pack of otter hounds has shown thevarmint u
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