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Otters
Otters are semi-aquatic fish-eating mammals with a thick fur to keep them warm in cold water. Ask questions about these playful animals here.
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What are 3 facts about sea otters?
There are so many! Here is a sampling:
- Sea otters use tools! They have pouches under their armpits in which they store rocks. They use these rocks to crack open the shells of animals they eat. They also tie themselves up in kelp when they go to sleep so as not to drift out to sea.
- For a long time, California sea otters were thought to be extinct due to overhunting. Then a colony of 50 was discovered. All of the approximately 3000 California sea otters alive today descended from them.
- Sea otters are a keystone species in the kelp forest ecosystem. This means that if they were to disappear, the ecosystem would collapse.
- Sea otters have few natural predators. Sharks usually can only catch them if they're injured or sick. Recently, it is suspected that some orca whales in Alaska have also begun preying on sea otters.
- There are three major subspecies of sea otters: Californian (or Southern), Alaskan (or Northern), and Russian/Japanese.
- The California sea otter population is mysteriously not growing, despite models suggesting that it should be. Many theories have been put forward to explain this, but none have been confirmed.
- If people flush cat litter down a toilet, toxoplasmosis parasites can infect sand crabs. Because of insufficient food availability, sea otters have been eating sand crabs. This has lead to otters being weakened by toxoplasmosis infections.
- Because sea otters don't have blubber, they depend on their fur and fast metabolisms to keep warm. Consequently, they spend about 1/3 of their day grooming and eat about 1/4 of their body weight daily. They are so heat efficient that they have adapted to use the heat created by digesting their food (thermic effect) to warm themselves up.
- It only takes two tablespoons of oil to mess up a sea otter's coat to the point where it can't keep the otter warm enough to survive.
Sea otters are awesome! Protect them!
It can differ from deep brown with silver-gray speckles, but it can rand from yellowish or grayish brown to almost black
Do sea otters live in Germany?
Sea otters are native to the Pacific coastal waters of North America. There may be some sea otters in German zoos, but I don't know. However, European river otters do live in Germany.
maybe if they grew 5 foot and started ripping organs out of the human skull and rips there fingers of one by one then eat there eye balls
Sea otter cubs have air in their fur, and simply float while their mother dives for food. Adult otters use their flippers and tail to navigate through the water. They have a clear eyelid that serves as goggles so that they see underwater. They use their whiskers to feel vibrations of prey moving water in aglea filled or cloudy water.
River otters are not scavengers. They prefer to hunt and kill their own food.
How does nature hurt sea otter?
- otters are vastly hunted in southern UK for their milk and fur as it is a high value luxury. They are hunted down using trap and wild dogs which savage them. This is illegal in the UK but many people still do it as they would want a vast amount of money from it.
Do sea otters have any natural enemies?
Yes, yes they do- Voldemort or any other hairless creature. The sea otter does not understand why these organisms do not have hair, sending it into a frenzy. This "frenzy" is sometimes referred to as the "warriors dance". The sea otter then strikes its hairless nemisis, resulting in the nemisis's extinction. This means that the hairless organism would no longer exist, and you could not see it anymore.
Does freshwater otters live in ponds?
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Yes, they can. They prefer running, freshly oxygenated water, as this best supports the life of much of their prey. (Primarily fish)
I have personally watched an otter which lived near a large, Florida pond.
Sea otters share their habitat with what other important organism?
Sea otters share their habitat with kelp, an important marine organism. Kelp forests provide critical shelter and foraging grounds for sea otters, as they rely on kelp to anchor themselves while hunting for prey like sea urchins. This relationship is vital for maintaining the health of the ecosystem, as sea otters help control the sea urchin population, which in turn supports the growth of kelp.
Sea otters live in kelp forests in groups called rafts various places.
I think They are not hunted any more but i could be mistaken.
Where can you watch PB and J otters?
Youtube, and they still air it on the British and Australian verisons of Disney Channel.
What do you need to watch otters?
You can go on youtube.com and type otters or if you mean how do you watch them in person you watch them quietly and with binocolors.
Otters are omnivors because they can eat both seaweed and crab.
