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 Translation for 'sea otter' from English to French
NOUN   a sea otter | sea otters
SYNO Enhydra lutris | sea otter
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loutre {f} de mer [Enhydra lutris]
sea otter
Partial Matches
géogr.
Canal {m} de Kiel
North Sea-Baltic Sea Canal
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loutre {f} [sous-famille Lutrinae]
otter
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loutre {f} commune [Lutra lutra]
Eurasian otter
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loutre {f} commune [Lutra lutra]
European otter
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loutre {f} commune [Lutra lutra]
common otter
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loutre {f} européenne [Lutra lutra]
Eurasian otter
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loutre {f} de rivière [Lontra canadensis]
common otter
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loutre {f} géante sudaméricaine [Pteronura brasiliensis]
giant otter
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loutre {f} géante (du Brésil) [Pteronura brasiliensis]
giant otter
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loutre {f} européenne [Lutra lutra]
European otter
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loutre {f} japonaise [Lutra nippon]
Japanese otter
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loutre {f} européenne [Lutra lutra]
common otter
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loutre {f} de mer méridionale [Lontra felina]
marine otter
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loutre {f} d'Europe [Lutra lutra]
European otter
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loutre {f} d'Europe [Lutra lutra]
Eurasian otter
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loutre {f} d'Europe [Lutra lutra]
common otter
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loutre {f} marine [Lontra felina]
marine otter
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limnogale {m} [Microgale mergulus, syn. : Limnogale mergulus]
otter shrew
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loutre {f} à joues blanches [Aonyx capensis]
groot otter
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paraonyx {m} tacheté [Aonyx capensis congicus, syn. : Aonyx congicus]
Cameroon clawless otter
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Usage Examples English
  • The expedition harvested 1,500 sea otter pelts, which Chinese merchants bought for 1,000 rubles each at their trading post near Lake Baikal.
  • For non-mailing purposes (other than payment of property taxes, when parcel numbers are used), an individual property is identified on a geographical-location pattern (a fictitious example follows): Sealion 5 NW Sea Otter.
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Otter Research and Conservation program began in 1984 to research and rehabilitate wild southern sea otters.
  • Very occasionally, they have been known to prey on northern fur seals, harbor seals, and sea otter pups.
  • The most profitable furs in the fur trade were those of sea otters, especially the northern sea otter which inhabited the coastal waters between the Columbia River to the south and Cook Inlet to the north.

  • Although the historical numbers of sea otter in the San Juan Islands is not known, the habitat for them may have once been ideal.
  • To allow Supermarine to concentrate on Spitfires, Saunders Roe on the Isle of Wight took on the manufacture of the Walrus and Sea Otter.
  • After the initial exploitation of the sea otter population, Russians rarely visited the island as interest shifted further east.
  • The Pentlatch peoples knew the European traders who explored their shores in search of sea otter pelts.
  • However, past human interaction has caused a decline in several species of animal along the coast, such as the sea otter.

  • The Russian-American Company operated from 1799 through the mid-1800s. It used Dutch Harbor in the transport of goods, mainly seal and sea otter fur.
  • Rescue by Sea Otter was impossible due to the appalling conditions.
  • These evolved throughout the interwar period to ultimately culminate in the post World War 2 Supermarine Seagull, which was to have replaced the wartime Walrus and the Sea Otter but was overtaken by advances in helicopters.
  • Clamming once drew thousands of clammers to Pismo during low tides, and is still legal; however, due to over-harvesting by humans and the protected sea otter (which feasts on clams), few clams are to be found.
  • After near-total extirpation by fur traders in the 18th and 19th centuries, sea otters ("Enhydra lutris") were protected by international treaty in 1911.

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