Otter
The otter belongs to the family of mustelids, is nocturnal, and its diet mainly consists of fish.
”It is also said with certainty that the otter, when wounded in the water, immediately dives to the bottom and never comes up again, but if it is killed instantly, it floats, at least for a while, on the surface.” Llewellyn Lloyd
In western Sweden, the great hunter Llewellyn Lloyd hunted in the 19th century. Lloyd does not mention much about the otter despite the animal being common throughout almost all of the Nordic region until the mid-20th century. After that, it suffered a serious decline, partly because it was persecuted for raiding fish farms and partly due to environmental toxins.
Today, otters are found in most of their former range. For 19th-century peasant hunters, the otter was primarily game that provided a beautiful fur.
