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Article: Emergency care and rehabilitation of oiled sea otters: a guide for oil spills involving fur-bearing marine mammals.
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- Arctic
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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EMERGENCY CARE AND REHABILITATION OF OILED SEA OTTERS: A GUIDE FOR OIL SPILLS INVOLVING FUR-BEARING MARINE MAMMALS. Edited by TERRIE M. WILLIAMS and RANDALL W. DAVIS. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1995. 279 p., b&w and colour illus., glossary, appendices, index. Hardbound, US$45.95; Softbound, US$29.95.
The sea otter, Enhydra lutris, a social marine mustelid found around the Northern Pacific rim, once ranged from northern Japan, through Russia and the Alaska Peninsula, along the west coast of North America to Baja California. Apart from Russia, Alaska, and a few transplanted populations in California, Oregon, and British Columbia, the sea otter is now ...