Cardiff University Otter Project

🌏5TH JUNE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY🍃

🍀🌸🍂Contaminants disrupt the balance of the ecosystem, leading to direct harm to aquatic organisms and significant effects throughout the food web.

🦦🌊🌊Apex predators such as otters are one of the mammals that are most vulnerable to the impacts of water pollution.

Otter #4801 is a juvenile found dead near Oxford. The otter was estimated to be approximately 2 months old, but lacked any development of hind limbs or pelvis. We are exploring next steps to investigate the potential cause, which is most likely to be a genetic abnormality, but could potentially be teratogenic chemicals. If there have been any other sightings of mammals with no hind limbs in the UK, we would love it if you could get in contact with us!

Welcome our new placement student for April -- Tim Trautner!!🎉🦦