The Giant Otter: Giants of the Amazon

"The charisma of these huge, Amazonian 'river people' burns through even the most factual descriptions, emphasized by an abundance of photographs." —BBC Wildlife

The aptly named giant otter is exceptionally well adapted to life in rivers, lakes and wetlands in tropical South America. Known in Spanish as lobo del rio or 'river wolf,' it can be as long as a human is tall and is the most social of the world's thirteen otter species. Each individual is identifiable from birth by its pale thro...