Now we had some fresh tracks and lots of belly slides. The tracks stopped at a bank where the otter made a deposit. A very recent deposit. Snow had started falling heavily, so we had to end there. On ...

With support from an AWI Christine Stevens Wildlife Award, a novel and noninvasive method for sampling river otters using DNA collected from otter tracks left in the snow was tested in the western ...

Wild animals are experts at staying out of sight. Yet the winter snow and mud can reveal a detailed account of the comings ...