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Sea otters commonly exhibit swimming behavior where they swim on their backs. The features which facilitate swimming on the back also facilitate tool use. Otters that do not use tools still feed on their backs. This habit of feeding on the surface with the chest up facilitates a flat surface for resting rocks and pounding items together (1). [3]
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Do not try to photograph, touch, pet or feed the otter. If the otter pursues you or somebody you are with: Wave your arms and get loud. Slap the water with your paddle, oar or hand.
(As for the YouTube thing, just search for 'otters holding hands' and you'll find'em.) Tony Fox (arf!) 20:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC) [ reply ] 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.
Congo clawless otters eat small vertebrates, frogs, and eggs. There are otters that do eat fish, however. Sea otters eat crabs, sea urchins, abalones, clams, mussels, snails, and slow-moving fish.