#90810
01/03/2003 11:39 AM
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#90811
01/03/2003 2:24 PM
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Would there be no sea otters in Chesapeake Bay?
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#90812
01/03/2003 4:41 PM
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And the sea otters are dying in large numbers from a parasite in cat excrement washed
into Pacific.
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#90813
01/04/2003 1:01 AM
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#90814
01/13/2003 1:54 PM
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On holiday in California four years ago we travelled down Highway One along the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles and saw sea otters off the Pebble Beach 17 mile drive. They were floating on their backs some 15 metres offshore, too far to see if they had kittens with them (are they kittens, pups or cubs?). Whether we were lucky or this was a common sight there I don’t know. Looking up details later I found that the adult male weighs 70 to 90 pounds and is about 4.5 feet long – rather longer than a European river otter (lutra lutra) and at least twice the weight.
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#90815
01/13/2003 2:10 PM
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kittens, pups or cubs?
Looking at a couple of sites it looks like pups. And they have only one per gestation.
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#90816
01/13/2003 3:35 PM
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Dear Faldage,
Pups. Thanks for that. With only one pup in a litter it sounds like a long task to reestablish numbers in a depleted population.
dxb.
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#90817
01/13/2003 3:38 PM
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With only one pup in a litter it sounds like a long task to reestablish number
If it's any comfort, I think one of the sites I found said they have them twice a year.
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#90818
01/13/2003 6:49 PM
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#90819
01/13/2003 7:15 PM
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a litter of one?
AHD defines litter as the offspring produced at one birth by a multiparous mammal and multiparous as giving birth to more than one offspring at a time. You do the math.
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#90820
01/13/2003 8:25 PM
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And AHD gives etymology of "litter" as "being influenced by French :lit' = bed.
Litter as a mess is something else, a metaphor from appearance of trashy stuff used as
animal bedding.
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#90821
01/14/2003 4:52 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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more than one offspring at a time
Umm. Obviously not a litter. Thanks for that, its always good to learn something new.
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#90822
01/15/2003 2:26 AM
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AHD defines ... multiparous as giving birth to more than one offspring at a time.
Obstetrically, we use it to mean more than one instance of giving birth.
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