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Show Ntia Otter Not Extinet. I Mr. Chapman states that he saw a band of forty sea otters in company with a school of porpoises and black fish sporting sport-ing in the ocean off his place on the shore above Gray's harbor. So the otter is not so noarly extinct as some imagine from the small number of their skins which now find their way to market. It is a shy animal, living most of tho time in the water, and often going far from land, but coming ashore to produce. It is a stupid, inoffensive animal, mnch like a seal in its nature and habits. The ! skull is seldom seen in museums, and the species will probably be extinct in a I few years. Olympic Tribune. |