Giantotter🦡

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SpeciesCarnivoraMustelidae
Carnivores

🦡Giant otter

Pteronura brasiliensis Zimmermann, 1780

큰수달(Pteronura brasiliensis)은 남아메리카에 서식하는 육상 포유류이다. 족제비과의 종중 가장 길며, 가족을 이루는 등 다른 족제비와는 달리 사회성이 강하다. 거의 낮에만 활동하는 주행성이다. 털을 위한 남획으로 현재는 개체군 사이의 연결고리가 많이 상실되었다. 야생에는 5,000마리가 남아있고, 사육하에는 50마리 정도가 있을 뿐이다. 기아나 지역에 가장 많이 남아있으며, 이제는 서식지 상실마저 존치여부를 위협하고 있다.

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vs you
≈ a third of your weight
Also called
Giant Brazilian Otter
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
24 kg
Body length
1.27 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Giant otter

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
24 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female24 kgWikidataQ83774
  • Male29 kgWikidataQ83774

Figures vary

  • 24 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.27 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
92 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
6 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.0 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
69 days
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Figures vary

  • 68 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
86 km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
24 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Giant otter yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyMustelidae
  6. ›genusPteronura
  7. ›speciesPteronura brasiliensis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. subfamilyLutrinae
  4. genusPteronura
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyMustelidae
  14. subfamilyLutrinae
  15. genusPteronura
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Closest relative on this site
🦦 Eurasian otter — last shared an ancestor ≈ 8.5 million years ago.
What it eats
fish60%
insects and other invertebrates40%
In other languages
Pteronura brasiliensis (es), Riesenotter (de), Pteronura brasiliensis (fr), Pteronura brasiliensis (it), 巨獺 (zh), Arirania (pl) … and 27 more languages

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