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Otters keep an almost unique place in the animal kingdom of the English Isles, being one of the extremely few creatures that give birth once every 2 yrs. They will be the most secretive yet also the most popular mammals - they are found in every county but are so rarely seen that they have been raised to mythical position. When Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in Southern Great britain, little does he know that he'd come to share the mill with a family of crazy otters. Yet move around in they does, allowing him to begin to observe them, soon immersing himself in their daily routines and activities. He developed an extraordinarily close marriage with the family, which in turn gave him a unique insight in to the life of these fascinating creatures. Cooper interweaves the non-public story of the female otter, Kuschta, with the natural record of the otter in the English Isles, only just lately brought back from the brink of extinction through tireless conservation initiatives. Following in the footsteps of Henry Williamson's traditional 1920s story Tarka the Otter, viewers are taken on a journey through the calendar year, learning the most personal information on this most beautiful of English mammals. Cooper brings these beloved animals alive in all their wondrous difficulty, revealing the previously hidden secrets of their lives in this wonderfully told story of the otter.
