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 … Read more
We all know what sea otters are like; floofy aquatic mammals who swim around and do all kinds of adorable things. They seem pretty harmless, right? Well, for the most part, they are, so long as you stay away from their teeth. While they look innocent from a distance, up close, they can be a … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are marine mammals from the Mustelidae family whose future is uncertain. These native weasels of the northern and eastern areas of the Pacific Ocean were once abundant reaching a population of 300,000 in the 1700s. Their existence at present is now a cause of major concern. There are now only about … Read more
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 … Read more
Sea otters are one of the biggest members of the weasel or Mustelidae family, but one of the smallest among marine mammals. They are native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. They are also extremely fluffy with over 1 million hairs per square inch (for your reference, we generally have … Read more
Sea otters don’t make good pets because they are wild animals that naturally belong to the wild. They easily get aggressive when they feel threatened and they get agitated when they don’t get what they want Sea otters are very active and social animals so they are hard to housetrain. They mark their territory with … Read more
Sea otters are one of the aquatic members of the weasel family. They are highly adapted to their environment, and they’re overall amazing mammals that can spend their entire lives in water and also one of the few that can use tools. They have a lot of unique features such as webbed hind feet, or … Read more
Have you ever seen a sea otter? Aren’t they charming? When I see one, I’d like to scoop them up and bring them home. I don’t but what a cuteness overload! If you haven’t seen one though, that is because there are very few of them left. Due to the destruction of their ecosystem and … Read more
