Otter Facts & Trivia

Otter Facts

• Lives both in water and on land.
• 13 known species of otter.
• Lives worldwide.
• Four strong webbed feet.
• Five toes on each of their four feet.
• Adult has 32 teeth.
• Will weigh nearly 100 pounds.
• Can dive over 300 feet deep.
• Thickest fur of any mammal.
• Fur is so thick it has as many hairs as one million per square inch.
• They are an endangered species
• Sea otters do not have to leave the water
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Carnivora
• Family: Mustelidae
• Genus: Lutra

Otter Movies

• Saving Otter 501 (2013)
• Survival Tales of the Wild: Sea Otters (2011)
• Cute & Cuddley Critters Tinker the Otther (2002)
• Tarka the Otter (1979)
• Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band (1977)
• Ring of Bright Water (1969)

Famous Otter Songs

• If I Were An Otter (2013)
• Ollie the Otter (2011)
• The Music of Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (2011)

Famous Otters

• Flash, From the book The Odyssey of an Otter
• Sweeting, from the book The Demon Breed
• Lottie, from the book Return to the Hundred Acre Woods
• Tarka the Otther, from the 1927 book