Otters are a group of highly successful semi-aquatic mammals that can be found all over the world. Otters have adapted to a wide variety of different ecosystems and ways of life and today there are quite a few different species. In today's video I will be focusing on the largest of the otter species as i will be going through 8 of the largest otters in the world.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:58 Smooth-Coated Otter
2:14 North American River Otter
3:18 Neotropical Otter
4:33 Eurasian Otter
5:44 African Clawless Otter
6:47 Congo Clawless Otter
7:47 Giant Otter
9:26 Sea Otter

Otter sizes:

Smooth-coated otter weight kg: 11KG
Smooth-coated otter length cm: 1.3M

North American river otter weight kg: 15KG
North American river otter length cm: 1.5M

Neotropical otter weight kg: 16KG
Neotropical otter length cm: 1.5M

Eurasian otter weight kg: 17KG
Eurasian otter length cm: 1.5M

African clawless otter weight kg: 21KG
African clawless otter length cm: 1.6M

Congo clawless otter weight kg: 25KG
Congo clawless otter length cm: 1.5M

Giant otter weight kg: 34KG
Giant otter length cm: 2.4M ONCE BUT NOW 1.8M

Sea otter weight kg: 45KG
Sea otter length cm: 1.5M

Attributions

Sea otter images:
rawpixel
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Mike Baird
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Mike Baird
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Giant otter images:
Edwin Bellota
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Gerry Zambonini
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Aardwolf6886
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Tambako The Jaguar
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Bernard DUPONT
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Paul Williams
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African clawless otter images:
Frans Vandewalle
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Nick Athanas
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GrantHillebrand
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Eurasian otter images:
Chris Paul
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Peter Trimming
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Neotropical otter images:
Victor
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Bernard DUPONT
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North American river otter images:
Richard Crook
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David Brossard
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Diana Robinson
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Robin Gwen Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist)
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Smooth-coated otter images:
Andrea Schieber
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Smooth-coated otter footage:
Jon Cox
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SgBeachBum
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Neotropical otter footage:
mvrxiru van Ray
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Giant otter footage:
Garima Bhatia
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Natventure Expeditions
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Sea otter footage:
JaduMindTrick
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Ingrid Taylar
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CC BY-NC

I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
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Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)

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