Talk:Eurasian otter
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[edit] Things needed
Information on size and lifespan etc should be added to the page
Under conservation there should be some mention of the role of pollutants especially PCB's in the decline of European otter populations 1950s-80's and the partial recovery following bans on PCB's in European countries. See 'Decline and Recovery in otter Lutra lutra populations in Italy, Claudi Prigioni, Alssandro Balestrieri and Luigi Remonti, 2007 Mammal Review 37 (1) pp71-79' and the references from that paper.
I have added some better info on conservation and more references, mainly UK centric I'm afraid but an improvement on the previous version.
[edit] Are they in the U.K.?
Why are they not shown on the range map?
[edit] Name of species (and article)
Is there a source for using "European" otter as the name for this species in English? It may be the only otter in Europe, but it's an odd name for a species also occurring in North Africa and all the way to Japan... It is in widespread use, but is by no means the only name by which the animal is known.
The alternative names given in the article are Eurasian River Otter, Common Otter, and Old World Otter (in practice in the British Isles it's most commonly just called "otter"). All of these also seem unsatisfactory – it's not just found in rivers, it's not always common, and there are many other otters in the Old World.
"Eurasian otter" seems to be a very widely used name, which avoids most (all?) of these problems.
If the use of "European otter" has not been assigned formally (which I don't think it has), I suggest that the name of this article is changed to "Eurasian otter" – unless someone can come up with something better?--Richard New Forest 22:13, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
- No comments for several weeks, so move done & rename tag removed. Redirect pages corrected, and name corrected in Otter.--Richard New Forest (talk) 21:21, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
