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The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s newest sea otter, Opal. is seen swimming on her back. (Photo courtesy Monterey Bay Aquarium) When she is old enough, the one-year-old sea otter may give pups brought ...
Both otters were rescued in California as pups. Photo courtesy of Terria Clay/New York Aquarium. The otters, now 10 and 13 years old, lived in several accredited zoos and aquariums before they made ...
After two years of parentening training at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, southern sea otters Suri and Willow returned to the Aquarium of the Pacific in California so they can be surrogate moms to ...
On the Central Coast, red sea urchins are much less common than the smaller purple sea urchins. The San Nicolas otters also eat marine snails and crabs, but there is little difference between the ...
But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters live, the cute apex predators have led to green crabs’ demise by eating up to 120,000 of the invasive species ...