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, ...

Sea otters feast on tough-shelled prey like clams, mussels, crabs, and sea urchins. Their powerful jaws and specialized molars help them crush some food, but for the hardest shells, they need a ...

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 ...