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otterfamilyThree of my old papers have recently been published on the web. Actually, I shouldn't call them papers; they are really just reports/notes. They weren't written in the form of formally-published journal articles, nor were they peer-reviewed. However, they are the only scholarly works of mine that have been published in any form to date, and although one or two of my conclusions haven't stood the test of time, the basic descriptions of the otters' behavior and accounts of events that took place remain true and factual.
"Social Organization and Behavioral Ontogeny of Otters (Lutra canadensis) in a Coastal Habitat in Northern California"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume4/Shannon_1989.html
"Progress on Californian Otter Research"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume6/Shannon_1991.html
"Progress on California Otter Research: 1991"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume7/Shannon_1992.html
N.b., the "abstracts" were not written by me, but were added by the person who adapted the text for web publication. The anglisized spellings were also not in my original manuscripts.
There is a fourth (and final) report in the series that has not yet been put up on this site. It describes the calamitous events of 1992 and the collapse of the maternal system here. Fourteen years later, the familial structure of this population has still not recovered, and appears today to be teetering on the brink of final destruction.
EDIT: The fourth report has now been posted:
"Behavior of Otters in a Coastal Marine Habitat: Abstract of Work in Progress"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume8/Shannon_1993.html
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Scoots has vanished again. Perhaps she has taken her newborns to her new "home away from home" where she disappeared to from January-April. Wherever she's gone, I hope she and her pups are safe.
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And I discovered yesterday that a fair number of the DVD master disks of my converted VHS tapes were burned on defective media. Looks like my work on that project is not yet finished after all.
"Social Organization and Behavioral Ontogeny of Otters (Lutra canadensis) in a Coastal Habitat in Northern California"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume4/Shannon_1989.html
"Progress on Californian Otter Research"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume6/Shannon_1991.html
"Progress on California Otter Research: 1991"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume7/Shannon_1992.html
N.b., the "abstracts" were not written by me, but were added by the person who adapted the text for web publication. The anglisized spellings were also not in my original manuscripts.
There is a fourth (and final) report in the series that has not yet been put up on this site. It describes the calamitous events of 1992 and the collapse of the maternal system here. Fourteen years later, the familial structure of this population has still not recovered, and appears today to be teetering on the brink of final destruction.
EDIT: The fourth report has now been posted:
"Behavior of Otters in a Coastal Marine Habitat: Abstract of Work in Progress"
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/Bulletin/Volume8/Shannon_1993.html
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Scoots has vanished again. Perhaps she has taken her newborns to her new "home away from home" where she disappeared to from January-April. Wherever she's gone, I hope she and her pups are safe.
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And I discovered yesterday that a fair number of the DVD master disks of my converted VHS tapes were burned on defective media. Looks like my work on that project is not yet finished after all.
