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A river otter's view of life inside the den.
Tongass National Forest near Juneau, AK .(http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass/).
The words of an expert regarding the
den itself ....
"It's tough to say what the dimensions
are, but my guess would be less than 3 feet by 3 feet in the den where
the camera is. Of course, the entire lodge contains multiple den rooms
connected to each other. Otters are pretty big animals and can be
5 feet tip to tip. In the images, you never can see the whole otter
and he can't get too much farther back from the camera in that particular
den. I wouldn't doubt that there are at least a dozen dens within
the lodge, with some of them under the stick pile and others being
excavated into the hillside next to the pond. "
Needless to say, this structure is a
lot larger than one would think from this camera's view.
Video courtesy US
Forest Service.
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