The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.
This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. I am hunting otters with Charlie, the two of us in wet suits, our bodies submerged, level with the sea. The tankers ...