Scientific name:
Aonyx cinerea

Natural spread:
Asia

the dwarf-otter, the actual finger-otter (Aonyx capensis) as well as the small-claw-otter (Aonyx congica) all 3 are near together relative and sometimes are marked as "finger-otters." This name indicates an outstanding peculiarity of this of this group of belonging types: The front-feet of the finger-otters possess, if at all, only small, the fingertip not outstanding claws, that are very similar for in turn partially real nails. Since the swimming-skins of the front-feet are missing, the front-legs of the "finger-otters" resemble the human hands.

The dwarf-otter reaches how the name already indicates, only the modest length of approximately 60 cm. If the tail with a length of approximately 30 cm adds on top of this. The otter brings it on a weight of almost 3-5,5 kg. The animal is "right colored" in contrast to several other martens, (badger, skunk) that is the back is dark brown and the stomach-side light with whitish throat.

Way of life Dwarf-otters live in family-associations also like our otters (otters) and hunt in small troops. they live in the most important thing of mussels, snails and cancers, that fingertips extremely track down tastempfindlichen it with its in the mud of its home-waters.

Spread These are at estuaries or at rivers in Asia's highland, particularly front and Hinterindiens as well as the big Sunda-Inseln. One likes dwarf-otters however also about the Meeresküste and from time to time even on paddies. However, the actual finger-otter and the small-claw-otter live in Africa.