The December snows have revealed Otter Signs Aplenty! Slides, fishing holes, tracks, marking areas, and holts revealing themselves in the winter wonderland. Though the uncharacteristically balmy, December warmup has literally “dampened” many things, it has only enhances the scents in the air. The river banks that often offer fresh otter tracks and sign on the daily, now also offer a heavier “fishy” scent from their recent nocturnal romps. The melting snow reveals more and more scat and markings (the source of the fishier smell), indicating this river bank as a latrine. An otter latrine is where otters convene, or converge with other otters to communicate between each other socially by means of markings, usually within strong bounds of their home territory.