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Otters in Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

S.M. Macdonald  and
C.F. Mason
S.M. Macdonald
Affiliation:
Dr S.M. Macdonald, The Vincent Wildlife Trust, c/o Department of Zoology & Comparative Physiology, University of Birmigham, Birmingham B15 2TT.
C.F. Mason
Affiliation:
Dr C.F. Mason, Department of Biology, University of Essex, Colchester.
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Abstract

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Nearly two-thirds of 200 sites the authors visited for an otter survey of mainland Greece early in 1981 showed evidence of otters. In some places there were signs that populations were becoming fragmented, but in some of the intensively farmed areas they were widespread in the irrigation ditches, where reeds and bramble thickets gave them cover. The study was financed by the Vincent Wildlife Trust.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , February 1982 , pp. 240 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1982

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