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English: Sleeping sea otters (Enhydra lutris) holding hands, photographed at the Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Date 3 April 2012; original photograph taken on 6 December 2006, 22:48.
Read on to learn the curious reason why otters hold hands. Sea otters live together in groups of 10 to 100 individuals, often forming “rafts” when they sleep by holding paws. ©MansonFotos ...
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 .
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northerners and easterners North Pacific Ocean.Adult sea otters typically weigh between 14 and 45 kg (30 and 100 lb), making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among [3] the smallest marine mammals.
Nyac was a female sea otter rescued from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. She was one of the last surviving sea otters from the incident and was later featured in a viral YouTube video of sea otters "holding hands" recorded by Cynthia Holmes. Nyac died on September 23, 2008, at approximately 20 years of age.
This is great news for sea otter conservation.
Enhydra is a genus of mustelid that contains the sea otter and two extinct relatives. It is the only extant genus of the bunodont otters group, referring to otters with non-blade carnassials with rounded cusps. [1] Sea otters probably diverged from other otters during the Pliocene, approximately 5 mya. [2]
A newborn sea otter found alone on Vargas Island off the coast of British Columbia continues to recover at the Vancouver Aquarium. Named Luna after the crescent-shaped beach where she was first ...