Talk:Smooth-coated Otter

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"The Smooth-coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a species of otter, the only extant representative of the genus Lutrogale."

The only extant representative? What does extant mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.200.253.152 (talk) 00:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Greetings! I think extant means that it is not extinct...--RainbowWerewolf (talk) 22:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Diet

I was looking at the line that states that a group of otters can kill a small caimon, and I couldn't help but notice that it says this on the web on many sites about Giant Otters (which live in South America), and that according to other Wikipedia articles, Caimans live in South America too.... while the Smooth coated otter lives in Asia. It may be that I'm still very ignorant on this subject, so please don't be offended, but perhaps the user who added that info confused the smooth coated-otter with the giant otter or confused caimans with gharials or some sort of Asian reptile. --RainbowWerewolf (talk) 01:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

The line that states that 75% to 100% of its diet is fish is true I think, although my reference doesn't include exact numbers, so i didn't put it in.--RainbowWerewolf (talk) 01:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beaver Dam

The beaver dam link just leads to a disambiguation page for places named "beaver dam." There is nothing about beavers as animals there. Link somewhere better.