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3 unusual facts about Otter


Joseph-Émile Brunet

He was also granted commission for two large bronze doors depicting animals native to Canada: “The Young Bear” and Cubs,” “Canadian Moose”, “Otters”, “Elk with wolves”, “Polar Bear”, “Beavers”, American Bison”, “Deer” and a “Great white Whale”.

Quietus, Montana

Quietus was established as a post office in 1907 to service homesteaders and ranchers living in the valleys of the Otter and Quietus Creeks.

Sesame Park

In 1987, a series of specially made Canadian Muppet characters were introduced, including Basil the Bear (played by Bob Stutt), French-Canadian Louis the Otter, Dodi, a bush pilot, and Katie, a girl in a wheelchair.


AirSea Lines

On 7 November 2006 an AirSea Lines Twin Otter seaplane landed at Royal Victoria Docks on the River Thames, London, at the end of a proving flight testing the feasibility of seaplane operations from the river.

Airville, Pennsylvania

Otter Creek was famously mentioned in the band Live's song, "The Dam at Otter Creek." Remnants of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad are also scattered throughout Airville, along Muddy Creek.

Babcary Meadows

Badgers (Meles meles) and Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) frequent the reserve and it is probable that Otters (Lutra lutra) use the river corridor.

Bakwas

The Tlingit have kushtaka, or land-otter people; the Haida have gagit, drowned spirit ghosts; the Nootka (Nuu-Chah-Nulth) have pukubts, a name which seems etymologically related to the Kwakiutl bakwas, as is the Tsimshian ba'wis.

Barnim

The Schorfheide is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and houses several rare animals like White-tailed Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Osprey, Black Stork, European Beaver and otter.

Battle of Cut Knife

Lieutenant-Colonel William Otter survived the battle and remained a prominent figure in the military, commanding The Royal Canadian Regiment in the Boer War, and acting as Director of Internment Camps in World War I.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

Wildlife that may be observed on the fell includes rabbit, hare, roe deer, stoat, weasel, red fox, badger, hedgehog, mole, grey squirrel and the otter.

Bunnahabhain

The area is rich in wildlife, boasting large numbers of red deer, roe deer, wild goats, otters, common and grey seals, seabirds such as cormorants and oystercatchers and also Lepidoptera, with peacock and speckled wood butterflies being a common sight.

Clan Ewen of Otter

The only genealogy to survive regarding Clan Ewen of Otter, is the so-called MS 1467, now held in the National Library of Scotland.

Complutensian Polyglot Bible

Proctor based his 1903 Otter Greek typeface on the Polyglot; the Greek Font Society's GFS Complutensian Greek is likewise based on the Polyglot.

Ereğli, Konya

This was the first "Hittite" monument discovered in modern times (early 18th century, by the Swede Otter, an emissary of Louis XIV).

Etsouali

On 12 March 1992, a Twin Otter of the Lina Congo airline crashed during a thunderstorm near Etsouali during a flight from Maya Maya Airport in Brazzaville.

Francis Otter

Otter was the son of Francis Otter of Ranby Hall, Wragby, and his wife Elizabeth Younger.

Hallington Reservoirs

There are sightings of red squirrel here as well as otters, badgers, and bats and recent surveys have also identified a healthy population of native white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes within the aqueduct that flows into the reservoirs.

Harbour Air Seaplanes

A small subsidiary, Harbour Air Malta, was set up in June 2007 and a DHC-3 Turbo Otter floatplane is permanently based in Valletta, Malta for scheduled flights to Gozo and sightseeing trips around the islands.

Kapuskasing River

The Kapuskasing River continues northeast over the White Otter Falls, the Bakatase Falls, the Camp Three Rapids and the Big Beaver Falls, takes in the right tributary Saganash River and reaches the town of Kapuskasing, where it is crossed by Ontario Highway 11 and the Ontario Northland Railway line (formerly Canadian National Railway, originally the National Transcontinental Railway).

Minnesota State Highway 228

Minnesota State Highway 228 is a highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with Otter Tail County Roads 4 and 17 in Vergas and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 10 in the unincorporated town of Luce in Gorman Township.

Ofotfjord

Sea eagles and otters have made a strong comeback and are now very common in and around the fjord.

Otter Creek Brewing

Otter Creek Brewing is a craft brewery located in Middlebury, Vermont which produces three lines of beer: Otter Creek Craft Ales, Wolaver's Certified Organic Ales, and Shed Brewery Ales.

Otter Creek, Minnesota

Otter Creek is an unincorporated community in Twin Lakes Township, Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.

Otter Tail County, Minnesota

In the Minnesota House of Representatives, Otter Tail County is divided into two districts.

Otú Airport

Previously, the airline ACES flew between this airport and Medellin several times per day on aircraft including the Let L-410 Turbolet, Cessna 206 and Twin Otter.

Peaks of Otter salamander

The Peaks of Otter salamander (Plethodon hubrichti) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family, endemic to the Peaks of Otter area in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

PFD Otter

PFD Otter is a spokesman and advocate for water safety, who spearheads the "Kids Don't Float" program created in Homer, Alaska.

Portbury Ashlands

Great crested newts (Triturus cristatus), Water voles (Arvicola amphibius), Grass snakes (Natrix natrix) and Brown Hares (Lepus europaeus) have been seen and there is evidence that Otters (Lutra lutra) are moving in.

Pukapuka

Thirty years later, Pukapuka was given the name "Isles de la Loutre" (Isles of the Otter) by Pierre François Péron, a French adventurer who was acting as first mate on board the American merchant ship, Otter (Captain Ebenezer Dorr) after it was sighted on 3 April 1796.

River Almond, Lothian

There is a good array of birds to be seen around the River banks, including Dippers, Kingfishers and Grey Herons, with increasing numbers of Otter being reported.

River Otter

The River Otter rises in the Blackdown Hills just inside the county of Somerset, England near Otterford, then flows south for some 32 km through East Devon to the English Channel at the western end of Lyme Bay, part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Permian and Triassic sandstone aquifer in the Otter Valley is one of Devon's largest groundwater sources, supplying drinking water to 200,000 people.

Rotten Calder

Otter, Roe Deer and European Green Woodpecker can be seen if you're lucky in the southern reaches of the park.

Smooth-coated otter

Due to the draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes during the presidency of Saddam Hussein it was feared that the Iraqi population of otters may have perished but a biodiversity site review in 2009 found tracks of an otter, suggesting that the population may have survived.

Southport Botanic Gardens

The botanic gardens' lake was formed from part of a stream (known as Otter Pool) that flowed from Blowick through Meols Hall out to the Ribble Estuary.

The Areas of My Expertise

Before that time, writes Hodgman, an entirely different animal - particularly "a kind of sea otter" - was known in Maine as the "lobster" (the photo of a European otter at right is included with the caption "Figure 11: The Lobster").

The Inner Mounting Flame

The track "You Know, You Know" was sampled in Massive Attack's "One Love", Mos Def's "Kalifornia", Black Sheep's single "Similak Child", David Sylvian's "I Surrender", Cecil Otter's "Rebel Yellow" and Blahzay Blahzay's "Intro" from Blah Blah Blah album.

Thomas Elwyn

He took a short turn at driving cattle then signed aboard the HBC steamship Otter as purser.

To the River Otter

Editions of Coleridge's works edited by James Dykes Campbell (1899) and by E. H. Coleridge (1912) determine that the "To the River Otter" is from 1793.

Turi Widerøe

She flew Noorduyn Norseman and de Havilland Otter seaplanes and later Twin Otter on scheduled routes and mercy flights for Widerøe's Flyveselskap north of the Arctic Circle.

Web-footed tenrec

The web-footed tenrec, otter shrew, or aquatic tenrec (Limnogale mergulus) is the only known semiaquatic Malagasy tenrec (the African otter shrews have similar habits), and is found in eastern Madagascar, especially in and around Ranomafana National Park.

Wilfred Thesiger

In the film version of Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water, Bill Travers uses a copy of Thesiger's The Marsh Arabs to covertly spy on his soon-to-be close companion, Mij the otter.

William Otter

The Right Reverend William Otter (23 October 1768 – 20 August 1840) was the first Principal of King's College London who later served as Bishop of Chichester.

Yiewsley

The last brick-field closed in 1935 following strikes and the Great Depression, and around this time Otter Dock was filled in.


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