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By the featured picture alone, can you identify which wild cat owns these piercing green eyes? You’d be pretty equipped in the wilderness if you answered mountain lion, cougar, puma, catamount, or deer tiger. There are a lot of possible answers, really. And they’re all correct because they’re all just pertaining to the same animal! …
When you look at a sea otter’s large, black-colored nose, don’t you just want to boop it with your finger? I, for one, absolutely want to, but I know that sea otters are wild animals that need their space at all times. Still, their adorable noses that complete their charming look probably have more function …
When you look at the picture above, can you easily spot the red-furred bobcat staring back at you? Now imagine the same setting, but this time you’re in the actual moment when the photographer took the photo. Would you still be able to identify a camouflaged bobcat from miles away in a thick forest? A …
Sea otters are famous for being gregarious, delightful fluffs of fur. Seeing them lined up like a pod and bouncing along the ocean waves might make your heart flutter. Or they might completely enamor you when they hold each other’s paws while they take a quick snooze together. With all these overwhelmingly adorable scenarios, is …
You might ask yourself if an animal living in a water habitat ever gets thirsty. Being surrounded by vast, open waters must make drinking water convenient for marine mammals, right? We must remember, however, that the ocean and seas where mammals like the furry sea otters live are made up of salt water. For humans, …
When we compare sea otters to other marine mammals, we can immediately see the size difference between them and most sea-dwellers. As the second smallest marine mammals, they come shy compared to their neighbor pinnipeds. So sea otters must have an excellent vision to protect themselves from threats and dangers. They also need their eyes …
All otters are semi-aquatic in nature, they can spend their days on land and also in water. Although some of them can forage on saltwater bodies, most otters live in freshwater habitats. Only sea otters almost exclusively live in the ocean; marine otters also venture to the sea but they prefer to be on land, …
All 13 otter species of the Lutrinae subfamily have four relatively short legs. They allow otters to swim, groom, walk, and manipulate (catch and eat) their prey. As the largest otters and members of their Mustelidae family, sea otters have short arms equipped with sensitive and agile forepaws. Their hind legs have also been advantageously …
Here at Floofmania, sea otters are one of our favorite marine mammals – and they could also be yours! After all, who can resist those charming furry faces? But they’re so much more than their fluff and cuteness; they are one of nature’s greatest aquatic environmentalists! As keystone species, sea otters help keep kelp forests …
Sleeping and resting is the second-most important daily activity in a sea otter’s life, next to foraging and followed by grooming. Sea otters specifically spend 40 to 49% of their daily lives snoozing off and building up energy so they can feed and groom themselves effectively afterward. Biologists routinely observe the resting behavior of sea …
Some animals have really striking and descriptive names that sort of give you a mental image of what they might look like. When the animal is called a “black bear”, a “rhinoceros beetle,” or something like that, you expect a completely black animal and an insect that resembles a rhino. In reality, however, the people …
A sea otter, Enhydra lutris, is one of the most distinctive marine mammals living exclusively in cold coastal waters. These animals can weigh as much as 100 pounds while measuring up to 5 feet in length. You might mistake them for corks or blobs bobbing along the water surface where kelp forests thrive. You’ll quickly …
The bob-tailed wildcats may just be almost twice the size of a domestic cat, but they are the most common felines in North America. They tend to roam very widely on the American continent and constantly change their habitats in search of food. Bobcats can go for weeks without a successful hunt or any food. …
Sea otters get their food, give birth, groom, play, and rest entirely in the ocean. So even though they can get out of the water and awkwardly walk on land to rest or seek shelter in a storm, sea otters spend most of their lives at sea. Moreover, sea otters live in chilly waters that …
Climbing or scansorial animals need to defy gravity, maintain balance, and overcome obstacles in moving up steep mountain slopes or round, large branches of a tree. Mammals that are well-adapted to climbing usually have short limbs, small body mass, interlocking claws, and grasping hands, feet, or a tail – all of which a red wolf …
A red wolf has gray and black-colored fur intermixed with buff red tones on its head, legs, and sides. Its ears are the longest among other wolves, and the red wolf also has a long, black-tipped tail. Moreover, red wolves come in the middle of gray wolves and coyotes when it comes to size. This …
Sea otters are the only fully aquatic otter species and the only living members of the Enhydra genus. They are arguably the cutest shallow coastal water dwellers in the animal world – scientifically speaking, of course, ahem. These adorable marine mammals are diurnal. They forage for their food before sunrise and go for another round …
As humans, our hearing ability enables us to recognize and make sense of the different sounds we hear in our environment. And even though our ears can pick up sound vibrations pretty well, a wolf’s sense of hearing is far superior – they can hear howls as far as 10 miles away! Red wolves (Canis …
Bobcats are solitary mottle-furred animals that heavily guard their territories. They choose far-ranging wildlands as their home and require a ton of personal space far from their own kind and even predators. The behavior and nature of these cats make them seem immune to imminent danger. Yet as any member of the animal kingdom, these …
Sea otters are the heaviest marine mammals of the Mustelidae family. Out of the 13 other carnivore members of the mustelids, the sea otters can weigh up to 100 pounds and grow up to 5 feet in length. These adorable-looking critters are important aquatic species that help maintain the health of kelp forests. Kelp, of …