otters

• When there are no longer enough abalone to feed all the otters, the otter population shrinks.
• Griffin, who is retired and has traveled to every continent except Antarctica, said the otters were the only folk-art piece that survived the storm, which made landfall Sept. 13, causing severe flooding and damaging much of the upper Texas coast. —  The Daily News - News
• Sea otters are the hairiest animals on earth with 170,000 to 1 million hairs per square inch. —  Arizona Daily Wildcat
• Then he stopped and fired a shot from the revolver that we carried in turn for the otters, and the sound of the detonation seemed to echo in a muffled fashion from the bowels of the earth How many otters have you killed?' —  Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
• "Then you remember," he went on, "we got up there to Point Barrow and found where the Russian fellows had their post, where they caught sea-otters, and we went ashore and got 'em all full and lifted all the skins they had Lifted'? —  A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West

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