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otterfamily) wrote2006-05-11 02:20 am
otterfamily) wrote2006-05-11 02:20 am
Welcome new friends
I want to welcome those who've recently friended my otter blog. Having a decent number of interested readers now will give me more reason to post. I was going to formally debut this journal last spring, but as events transpired, the otters gave me little or nothing substantive to write about in 2005.
I truly pray Scoots will keep her babies this year! The main reason for the population's decline over the past decade is its 90%+ pup mortality rate. In fact, Scoots's son from 2002 is the only offspring born in the last 9 years who has survived to adulthood. Year after year, the population is growing older and individuals are dying off without being replaced by new young. Inevitably, this will result in a local extinction. Scoots has this year and maybe next to produce a female heir, or it is all over for the otter population at Trinidad Bay?
I truly pray Scoots will keep her babies this year! The main reason for the population's decline over the past decade is its 90%+ pup mortality rate. In fact, Scoots's son from 2002 is the only offspring born in the last 9 years who has survived to adulthood. Year after year, the population is growing older and individuals are dying off without being replaced by new young. Inevitably, this will result in a local extinction. Scoots has this year and maybe next to produce a female heir, or it is all over for the otter population at Trinidad Bay?