15 - 11 OTTER RIVER Edition; Chapters Chapters Edition; th AMERICAN (Photo: Dave Mellenbruch) Husbandry Notebook, 4 Notebook, Husbandry NORTH i NORTH AMERICAN (Nearctic) RIVER OTTER (Lontra canadensis) Husbandry Notebook, Section 3 Chapters 11 - 15© Edited & Written by: Janice Reed-Smith 2012 Originally funded by: John Ball Zoological Garden and Core Gorsuch Foundation With the support of: The AZA Small Carnivore Taxon Advisory Group ii “Alacris ad ludos est.” “It is quick to play” (Albertus Magnus, 13th Century teacher and naturalist) North American River Otter Husbandry Notebook 4th Edition; Section 3, Chapters 11 - 15 Published 2012 1st Edition published 1994 John Ball Zoo, Grand Rapids, Michigan © 1994 – 2012 Janice Reed-Smith All Original Content © Janice Reed-Smith 2012 Jan Reed-Smith, Editor
[email protected] Original Contributing Authors: Jan Reed-Smith, MA; Kris Petrini, D.V.M.; Lucy Spelman, D.V.M.; Gwen Meyers, D.V.M., Sue Crissey, Ph.D; Chip Harshaw; Angela Carter; Mac McFeely; Maris Muzzy; Clio Smeeton; John Partridge; Sheila Sykes-Gatz; Significant Contributors to 2012 Edition: Gwen Myers, D.V.M; Barbara Henry; Mike Maslanka; David Hamilton; Melanie Haire; Tanya Thibodeaux; Clio Smeeton; Christine Montgomery; Kevin McKay; Jessica Ehrgott; Paige Morabito; Jan Reed- Smith. iii K. Talcott Photo In the days when the earth was new and there were no men but only animals the sun was far away in the sky. It was so far away that there was no summer. It was so far away that the trees and the grasses did not grow as they should. He-Who-Made-the-Animals saw how it was that there was not enough sun to heat the earth, and so he fashioned a snare.