Depending on its habitat, the diet of an otter can vary. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Otters are carnivores, so their diets primarily consist of meat.

The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.

Both otters, who are between two and four months old, were now feeding on mashed up trout after being weaned off a liquid diet, he said.

They are skilled hunters and fishers whose diet ranges from fruit and aquatic plants to crustaceans, fish, insects, small reptiles and amphibians, and even birds. Otters are beloved among wild ...

They're also generally very shy. River otters are top-level predators with broad diets that include fish (shown), as well as crustaceans and birds. Credit: Matthew Fryer As I’ve come to discover ...