Sea otters, with their expressive eyes and playful natures, are much more than just cute faces in the kelp forest. They belong to a rare group of animals known for using tools, a sign of advanced ...

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“Some Animals Are More Equal than Others ... From playful sea otters to majestic killer whales, the consequences are real—and happening now. If kelp forests collapse, the entire ocean ecosystem — and ...

There are few other animals that eat this much relative to their body ... It was this loss that illustrated the critical role that sea otters have on kelp forests. While diving in Alaska in the 1970s, ...

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Sea Otter. Image by "Mike" Michael L. Baird, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Pacific coast is home to one of nature ...

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Too many sea urchins can kill off kelp forests, reducing the ecological ... incredible swimming skills. Sea otters are also remarkably clever. These versatile and intelligent creatures are one of the ...

The local otter census, which had hovered around 373 animals through 2012 ... In this case, a tide pool predator’s collapse reshaped the foraging landscape of a kelp forest hunter. “It’s an example of ...

Kelp forests are at the heart of the new work ... was highlighted by the different results in central California. There, the main animals eating urchins are sea otters and the sea stars. But the ...