The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.

River otters do not dig their own dens but may modify the unused burrows of other mammals. Otters also dwell in abandoned beaver lodges, hollow logs, under tangles of roots, and within rocky ledges.

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