Japanese river otter
October 18, 2012 in Wildlife Village by Ann B
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I came across this rather sad but unsurprising article in my twitter feed. Unfortunatley the only image I could find is of this stuffed one.
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Japan’s Ministry of the Environment today declared the Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi) extinct. Last seen in 1979 in the city of Susaki on the island of Shikoku, the unique subspecies was killed-off by overhunting and loss of habitat due to development.
The extinction of the Japanese river otter represents another loss in Japan’s endemic mammal. Already the nation has seen the extinction two wolves, two bats, and a sea lion: the Honshu wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax) and the Hokkaid? wolf (Canis lupus hattai); Sturdee’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus sturdeei) and the Okinawa flying fox (Pteropus loochoensis); and the Japanese sea lion (Zalophus californianus japonicus).
Up until the Twentieth Century, the Japanese river otter was common in rivers across the country, feeding on fish and shrimp. Several expeditions to discover the mammal were undertaken in the 1990s. Yoshihiko Machida, a researcher at Kochi University, told The Japan Daily Press that he believes the animal may still survive based on scat found in 1999.
Read more:http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0828-hance-japanese-river-otter.html#ixzz25Q9kKPat
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This is a quick hello as I have only just got a few minutes to myself – just been one of those days.
Thank you for today’s Post Ann even though it wasn’t a happy one – Nature isn’t always happy and we have to take the good with the bad.
I am wondering how Deirdre got on to as I have been to dreaded hair-dresser today too – feel a bit scalped but as long as I don’t look in the mirror I can cope!
We often go on the same day Jack, must be to do with our birth dates being in the same week LOL! Like you
best not to look in the mirror!
Dx
going to shut down for tonight, i will snuggle
down with Woody & my book night night all,
george.
night night George enjoy your cuddles.
Sounds a good idea George, Woody is a lucky boy to find such a loving home.
Dx
Hi JACQUELINE, such a pity that you don’t fancy looking in your mirror now that you have had your hair done – I bet you look stunning, so be brave and kind to yourself and have a look!xx
Yes, DEIDRE, I have found your ‘hair reply’, further back really what you describe sounds much like what I have had done so we three can smile at ourselves and enjoy the ‘new style’ – until we wash it! For once, I actually remember you telling us some long time ago about the Japanese lady you see at the music recitals. For myself, I think initially, one could ‘putout fingers’ as to what a Japanese person might feel about wildlife in general before launching into that which so concerns us in Taiji.
ANN I’m so sorry that you are having such aggravating problems with your computer – or whatever is making you want to slap yourself in the face. As I’m sure you know I am not in the least computer literate so understand so very little. Were it me, I should probably have already thrown the dr….ed thing out of the window! If you take alcoohol, perhaps a glass of good, full-bodied red wine to sooth your nerves, failing that, a full bar of the very best chocolate, or a grandchild – yours or someone else’s, to sort it all out.
thanks rosy
Night night everyone – sweet dreams xxx