My last finding?
Jul. 7th, 2006 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
otterfamilyYesterday I once again went to the pier not expecting to see anybody, and there to my surprise was Mystery Male diving and fishing in the shallows by the beach. If I hadn't been lucky enough to see him, I wouldn't have guessed that he or any other otter was in town, though, as there was no recent scat activity at all on the dock.
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I think I've come up with my very last research finding. I was always curious whether or not the males' comings and goings were dependent on the presence of the resident territorial females. Since males and females typically avoid one another, the guys might leave from time to time just to get away from the girls. Well, now there are no girls to get away from, and instead of moving in and staying put here, the males are still coming and going as they always have - here for a few days, gone for a few more. I've kind of suspected all along that this would be the case, but until this summer, I never had the chance to test that hypothesis.
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I think I've come up with my very last research finding. I was always curious whether or not the males' comings and goings were dependent on the presence of the resident territorial females. Since males and females typically avoid one another, the guys might leave from time to time just to get away from the girls. Well, now there are no girls to get away from, and instead of moving in and staying put here, the males are still coming and going as they always have - here for a few days, gone for a few more. I've kind of suspected all along that this would be the case, but until this summer, I never had the chance to test that hypothesis.
