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It's also believed that otters hold hands for warmth. While these little guys do have nice thick fur, they don't have body fat. Which means that during the winter when waters get frigid they're at ...
Sea Otters hold hands so they don't drift apart while they sleep, but if there is no friend on hand, they use kelp as a blanket to anchor themselves. 2. They have the world's thickest fur .
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic , aquatic , or marine . Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family , which includes weasels , badgers , mink , and wolverines , among other animals.
Sea otters also have some of the largest lungs in the otter family, which may be helpful for buoyancy, especially because sea otters do not have blubber. Being buoyant along the length of the body allows otters to lie on their backs and manipulate food, tools, and young while on the surface of the water. [6]
Sea otters have the thickest fur of any animal (~1,000,000 hairs per square inch), as they do not have a blubber layer, while their oil glands help matt down their fur and keep it from holding air. [18] Thick bones also prove crucial in increasing buoyancy, as sea otters spend long hours floating atop the ocean.
This includes visits with the otters, the capybaras, the livestock, and many of the other creatures that call this small zoo home, from armadillos to porcupines.
(As for the YouTube thing, just search for 'otters holding hands' and you'll find'em.) Tony Fox 20:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC) Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water otter was a smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata), though as I recall the local Eurasian otters featured in later books.
Sea otters were once hunted for their fur, which is what lead to their dramatic decline, and they are now listed as a threatened species. It is unclear what drives 841's surfboard-aggressive behavior.