Sentence examples for otters used from inspiring English sources

Sad Slaughter Russian and Aleutian fur hunters, looking for sea otters, used Red Rock Island as a campsite in 1812.

Photograph: Paul Gilham/Getty Images Updated at 12.23pm BST 11.24am BST Sea otters use a plastic float as a boat.

Sea otters use rocks to smash clams open, dolphins wrap sponges around their noses to protect themselves while they forage on the seabed, elephants swat insects with branches and humpback whales exhale curtains of bubbles to trap schools of fish.

With your help the coastal otter project aims to build up a picture of how frequently and extensively otters use coastal habitats in England and Wales.

Sea otters use rocks to get at the meaty goodness inside clams and urchins.

Giant otters use these marks to recognize one another, and upon meeting other otters, they engage in a behavior known as "periscoping", displaying their throats and upper chests to each other.

In one of the funniest marriages of cynicism and need since Otter used the obituaries to find dates in "Animal House," the film presses Mr. Barris's claim that "The Dating Game" lent itself to his globe-trotting adventures as a C.I.A. assassin.

Nobody asks, 'Why am I on a river?' It's, 'Oh, I'm going down a river.' And there are otters: we use otters because otters are endearing — pretty nonthreatening".

Rather than having cheek teeth that could shear meat, as many carnivores do, Kolponomos's molars were similar to the flattened, low-crowned teeth that otters use to crush their shelled prey yet the creature lived long before anything similar to modern-day otters evolved.

For a study on river otters, Dr. Foresman used Google Earth to find log jams on the Bitterroot River.

Otters are used to frolicking around in the water and snacking on invertebrates and such, but when it comes to airline security, it's safe to say that's one area otters aren't used to.