TRAFFIC lights to help otters to cross the road safely have been installed on Mull thanks to a dedicated band of volunteers, after their research found 50 otters had been run over in the past four years.
Otters in Oban Bay.
Picture: John Speirs
The semi-aquatic mammals, members of the weasel family –which includes badgers, martens, minks and wolverines – sleep and rear their young inland in ‘holts’ but feed on fish, frogs, crayfish and crabs out to sea, where they are fast and agile swimmers with powerful webbed feet.