Otters Reveal Hidden River Health Secrets Along Nepal’s Karnali
Published on: Wednesday 30 September 2026
Along a 39-kilometre stretch of the Karnali River in western Nepal, a team of researchers has been reading the messages that smooth-coated otters leave behind. Not literal messages, but spraints: the faecal deposits that these social, group-living mustelids place at communal latrine sites scattered along the
News source: https://bioengineer.org/otters-reveal-hidden-river-health-secrets-along-nepals-karnali/