Aug. 23—Maine — and its woods, lakes, streams and the adjacent Atlantic ocean — are home to plenty of wild animal species. But every now and then, those critters have a surprise up their sleeves.

You can see an Erie Otter on ice during hockey season and the Erie Zoo recently unveiled its updated otter exhibit. But it could be a little harder to spot one of the carnivorous mammals at Presque ...

Signs of American river otters were there at Presque Isle State Park: tracks, a latrine loaded with fish scales eaten by the mammals and troughs where they had slid through the snow. For nearly four ...