R.E. Johnson 1968 Journal May 20 Amukta Island, Alaska (cont.) are several chunks, but the impressive thing is that the otter seems to keep hold of all of them most of the time & with no apparent effort or difficulty. She rolls always begin before the food is grasped & yet the food didn't lost. The occasional stray food item is picked up rapidly by gulls which either watch closely from the air or a nearby cliff or which swim in the wake of the otter waiting for scraps. Gulls were observed to follow an otter for as much as several hundred yards. Two otters were observed to feed on live fish caught on dives. There was no difficulty in hanging onto the fish. They rolled with them as with other food, but appeared to keep hold of them until they were dead, at which time they would leave the carcass on their chest while chewing up smaller chunks. They bit the fish & ripped pieces away by pulling in opposite directions with head & with forefoot. One fish was shaped much like a giant tadpole, that is a very fat round body & smaller slender tail. Another was a very spiny orangeish fish. Weather was a bit unusual today. It snowed briefly in the morning & the air temp. was cold, but there was little wind. The clouds lifted so that two islands could be seen: Little Sitkin & Semisopochnoi, as well as the