Volume 6 Pages 1 - 35 (February 1991)

Citation: Medina-Vogel, G. (1991) South American Marine Mammals Meeting. IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 6: 17

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South American Marine Mammals Meeting

Gonzalo Medina-Vogel

Casilla 191, Valdivia, Chile

Between 12 and 15 November 1990, in Valdivia, Chile, the 4th Meeting of Experts in Aquatic Mammals of South America took place. This forum (previous ones were held in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo) has been, during the recent years, a natural place for presentations of work, discussion about otters, and recommendations about action.

In the Valdivia Meeting (organized by Jorge Oporto, of the Centre for Research and Management of Marine Mammals), three South American workers on otters were present: 

• Elton Pinto Colares, from Brazil, who presented three works: Aspects of food habits of giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis in Brazilian amazonia; Pteronura brasiliensis in Maraca Island, Roraima, Brazil; and Blood parameters of Amazonian otters.
• Anibal Parera, from Argentina, with two presentations: Situation of Pteronura brasiliensis in Argentina: and Quantitative characterization of fresh-water-rnussels feeding-sites produced by Lutra longicaudis in Curuzu-Cuatia stream, Corrientes, Argentina.
• Gonzalo Medina-Vogel, Chile: New data about distribution and ecology of huillin, Lutra provocax, in southern Chile.

Besides the presentation of these works, the otter-experts made some fruitful discussions and interchange of experiences, concerning otter conservation. They considered it very convenient that the next world-meeting of the OSG be in South America.

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