Lost otter shows its teeth in rescue bid

AN otter found wandering in the main street of an east Clare village bit the hand of his rescuer as he tried to the creature to water.

Broadford farmer Joe Burke made little of the bite he sustained from the otter but instead expressed satisfaction at returning the mammal to a lake near Tulla.

Otters in Ireland currently have an unfavourable conservation status as a result of a decline in their population since the 1980s.