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The giant river otter in El Tuparro National Park, Colombia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Thomas R. Defler
Thomas R. Defler
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Apartado Aéreo 4559, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Abstract

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Giant river otters were once widespread in the rivers and creeks of the greater Amazon Basin. Hunting for their skins caused many local extinctions and only small scattered populations now remain, although total numbers are unknown. It is seriously endangered in Colombia, and one of the places where it still occurs in any numbers, El Tuparro National Park, is becoming increasingly accessible to people, while the otter populations in adjacent rivers outside the park are even more vulnerable to poaching.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 87 - 88
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1986

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