spraint

On the second day of his survey he found a fresh spraint at Backwell Lake.

The spraint is deposited either in tree trunks or on boulders, trails and pool edges.

A US firm, the Spraint Corporation, wants to buy them out.

Fresh signs of otter (spraint) were recently found on monitoring visits until the end of September 1999.

Spraint is the dung of the otter.

You might look out for spraint - otter poo - which may have little fish bones sticking out of it.

They often appear spiky because they contain fish bones and scales but the most distinctive thing about the spraint is the smell.

The tails have scent glands which they use to deposit their musky scent on the spraint.

Don't we want the books we read to rub off a little in the reading, to leave some spoor or spraint of memory or disquiet behind?

Look out for otter spraint - a fishy smelling secretion - and otter footprints on soft areas near the water.

Mark and Sally Lintern found a recent spraint on the Congresbury Yeo at the same site as in previous surveys.

Errors of otter lutra lutra activity on spraint production and composition: implications for models which estimate prey-size distribution.

Otters in Halsdon, Devon Early in the morning, you’ll spot the spraint, or otter droppings, first.

McGill is approached by another cousin, Fielding, to help prevent the sale of the family company to the American Spraint Corporation.

In Georgia, crayfish accounted for two-thirds of the prey in the summer diet, and their remnants were present in 98% of the summer spraint.

Because of the decline of otters in Britain, several surveys have been made to record the distribution of the animal, usually by recording the presence of spraint.

On the first day of his survey Jamie McPherson found an old spraint and otter footprints on the Little River near North End.

You are more likely to find an otter spraint (otter faeces with its distinctive odour of jasmine tea) or five-toed footprint than an otter itself, so nocturnal and secretive are they.

It seems possible that the site was used as a fish drying 'skeo', a roofed structure built to allow the wind to blow through it. It will be necessary to rule out other options, such as otter spraint, during post-excavation analysis.

Concentrate captive research in one of these two main fields: general otter biology, including genetic studies, nutrition, breeding, behaviour and pathology; research specifically aimed at complementing field research, such as improvement of fishing gear to avoid drowning, identification of spraint contents as a result of diet.