Talk:Japanese River Otter

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It is a member of the weasle family They are about 28 inches long They lived in mid and downstream areas of Japanese rivers It's population died due to hunters killing them for their fur it was last seen in 1979 at the sothern part of Kochi Prefecture It is listed as Critically Endangered in the RED DATA BOOK

[edit] Extinct?

I'm sitting in my living room in Tokyo watching a TV show where the host is playing with two of them and taking them around to swim in hot springs and the like. This is the "kawauso," or カワウソ. So how extinct could they be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.216.99.100 (talk) 10:46, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

カワウソ in general are not extinct. It's the particular subspecies Lutra lutra whiteleyi that is possibly extinct. See the Japanese articles on カワウソ and ニホンカワウソ. --Ptcamn (talk) 00:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

What you watched must be this program (please click '青木さやかの旅企画' you can see on top left) and those kawauso were コツメカワウソ/Oriental Small-clawed Otter, not Japanese River Otter. Oda Mari (talk) 10:02, 5 February 2008 (UTC)