Otters have very fast metabolisms and will eat 25% of their body weight daily to maintain their size and spend 60% of their day hunting for food, the Blue Reef Aquarium reports. An otter's ...

They start eating solid foods shortly after birth, but are dependent on their mothers for up to a year. Pups start diving within two months. LIFE CYCLE: Male sea otters live between 10 and 15 years, ...

When a mother sea otter needs to hunt for food, she carefully wraps her pup in a protective blanket of seagrass or kelp to keep them from drifting away with the ocean current. Fortunately ...

Some in the environmental community, who view the reintroduction and expansion of sea otters as one step in the restoration of the area’s marine ecosystem, believe that Tlingit should consume the ...

As it turns out, nature has a solution for everything; it is said that otters have biological 'pockets' under their fur for storing rocks and food. Is this true? Even otters have prized possessions.