It eats fish, but will also gorge itself on eels when they're in season and plentiful. They've also been known to attack the occasional duck, when desperately hungry. In fact, river otters themselves are highly sensitive to pollution, and almost died out entirely in the United Kingdom. The Asian Small-Clawed Otter is the smallest species of otter, and perhaps the cutest. It's also distinguished from the river otter by its habit of picking up its food in its paws to eat.
Asian otters are more sociable than their river cousins, and live in groups in the wild.
This pair live at Willer's Mill wildlife sanctuary, in Shepreth, England. They're named Bonnie and Clyde. Like all otters, these two were very playful. They hadn't been given any toys, but had developed their own games which seemed to involve fitting stones into holes in a tree stump, wrestling for control of a stick, and so on. Supposedly it's possible to tame Asian otters and keep them as pets.