The following text should have accompanied Richard Muirhead's article about a spotted otter but was inadvertantly left out.."Dr Andrew Kitchener of the National Museum of Scotland wrote to me on 29thApril 1996 on the otter: The otter looks most odd.I think there are twoexplanations.Either it is a hoax, or it could be a simple single genemutation causing white spotting.This white spot gene is known in cats and there is no reason to suppose it does not occur in otters, although as inmost wild mammals, these gene mutations are rare. Anyway, thank you forsending me the photocopy-it is a most unusual otter indeed."
Sorry Richard.
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