Untitled Document River Otter Home Range Dynamics Click here for a shape file of river otter den sites in South Kingstown. Each point represents a den for a single otter. Dens are usually in the center of a home range.
Otters are fiercely territorial.
Make a map of otter home ranges in the Town of South Kingstown. Do not extend your estimates of home ranges beyond the town boundary. Exclude lakes from the prime habitat. Do not show prime habitat outside of the town boundary. There are two viable hypotheses that correlate otter home range size and the amount of prime habitat.