But to her surprise, Jeppesen learned there was a much simpler way to remove the crabs ... a researcher was grabbing crabs from traps when he witnessed a sea otter consume about 30 green crabs ...

The live capture of river otters is notoriously difficult, which explains the dearth of information about the ecology of the species. Traditional traps, including leghold and cage traps, can be used ...

and playful — a group is called a romp of otters — but they are mostly nocturnal and shy of humans. The best way to track them is to look for their scat, which they leave in collective ...

the Elkhorn sea otters have significantly reduced the impact of the global invaders. "Back in the early 2000s, we would sometime catch up to 100 green crabs in one trap. When we set the traps in ...

Mark Sweeting found the dead otter in a trap during a morning swim A wild swimmer has spoken of the "traumatic" moment he discovered a dead otter in an unlicensed trap. Mark Sweeting is a regular ...