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The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern 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.
Sea otters can do well in captivity, and are featured in over 40 public aquaria and zoos. [4] The southern sea otter which range historically spanned from Baja, California all the way up to the shorelines of Oregon and Washington, now only stretches from Southern California to just north of Half Moon Bay, California. What was historically a ...
A sea otter's overactive metabolism plays a key role in helping the diminutive marine mammal keep its body warm in frigid temperatures. The post Here’s How Sea Otters Keep Their Tiny Bodies Warm ...
Most have sharp claws on their feet and all except the sea otter have long, muscular tails. The 13 species range in adult size from 0.6 to 1.8 m (2.0 to 5.9 ft) in length and 1 to 45 kg (2.2 to 99.2 lb) in weight. The Asian small-clawed otter is the smallest otter species and the giant otter and sea otter are the largest.
Every year, around 10 to 15 sea otter pups are found stranded off the California coast, often due to storms that separate mother and offspring. ... boy, you see that juvenile otter survive out in ...
Sea Otters can swim up to six miles per hour and hold their breaths for up to four minutes. They use these skills to dive as deep as 330 feet beneath the surface. 4.
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]
Federal wildlife officials have taken the first step toward potentially reintroducing sea otters to their former habitats in Northern California and Oregon. Sea otters were hunted to near-extinction.