Showing posts with label sea otters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea otters. Show all posts
8/3/26
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LONG BEACH AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC AND MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUMS TEAM TO BREED SEA OTTERS - SEA OTTER MOMS ADOPT ORPHANS
The Monterey Bay Aquarium's surrogate program continues to pair maternal-age female otters with motherless pups to help save the threatened California population.
KSBK - MONTEREY OTTER MOM ADOPTS ORPHAN
Excerpt: efore last month, a young southern sea otter named Rey would never have imagined she’d be a mother.
That changed when she met Sunny, a pup — about two weeks old — found orphaned and alone on Asilomar State Beach in February. The pairing went off without a hitch.
The two otters now live as mother and daughter at the Aquarium of the Pacific. They arrived at the facility last month, paired together as part of the facility’s surrogacy program that it runs alongside the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The program, created by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the 1990s, was launched in Long Beach in 2024. It pairs maternal-age female otters with young, motherless pups who would otherwise not survive on their own in the wild.
Megan Smylie, the sea otter program manager, says the operation has since rehabilitated and released nine otters into the wild, with the three others expected to leave by the summer.
... As a surrogate mom, she’s teaching her adopted baby everything she needs to know to fend for herself, regardless of her inability to return to the wild.
The two were seen manipulating an imitation crab shell and foraging for food. Young otters, because of the thickness and buoyancy of their fur, don’t have the strength to get their furry bodies to the bottom of the water tank.
Otters have the thickest coat of any mammal, with as many as a million hairs per square inch. The hairs trap air, which acts as insulation and helps keep the otters buoyant.
KSBK - MONTEREY OTTER MOM ADOPTS ORPHAN
Excerpt: efore last month, a young southern sea otter named Rey would never have imagined she’d be a mother.
That changed when she met Sunny, a pup — about two weeks old — found orphaned and alone on Asilomar State Beach in February. The pairing went off without a hitch.
The two otters now live as mother and daughter at the Aquarium of the Pacific. They arrived at the facility last month, paired together as part of the facility’s surrogacy program that it runs alongside the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The program, created by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the 1990s, was launched in Long Beach in 2024. It pairs maternal-age female otters with young, motherless pups who would otherwise not survive on their own in the wild.
Megan Smylie, the sea otter program manager, says the operation has since rehabilitated and released nine otters into the wild, with the three others expected to leave by the summer.
The two were seen manipulating an imitation crab shell and foraging for food. Young otters, because of the thickness and buoyancy of their fur, don’t have the strength to get their furry bodies to the bottom of the water tank.
Otters have the thickest coat of any mammal, with as many as a million hairs per square inch. The hairs trap air, which acts as insulation and helps keep the otters buoyant.
6/28/21
OREGON COAST AQUARIUM - LIVE CAMS - SHARKS - OTTERS - SEA BIRDS - FOSSILS
Special this summer is FOSSILS. Go to the site and you can get a SNEAK PEAK. CRUSIN the FOSSIL COASTLINE will include the art of Alaskan Ray Troll and Dr. Kirk Johnson, paleontologist, will show you the results of a long search for fossils.
Reading about their show, I'm reminded of my geography class. Learn about volcanoes, land slides, glaciers, ice sheets, and other earth changes that effected the Oregon Coast.
5/2/21
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE SEA OTTER TANK AT THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM?
One of several web cams at the MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM, you can watch sea life such as sharks, octopus, and kept beds.
9/13/19
SEA OTTERS IN NATURE - CLEAN - INSULATED - FLOATING
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SEA OTTER INFORMATION
Twenty two years old is an average lifespan in the wild for SEA OTTERS, an aquatic member of the weasal family who was once hunted to near extinction for their fur.
9/12/19
SEA OTTERS : CHARLIE THE OLDEST LIVED TO 22 IN CAPTIVITY
LA TIMES : CHARLIE, OLDEST SEA OTTER IN CAPTIVITY DIES AT 22 By Jaclyn Cosgrove
Charlie was rescued during an El Nino year as a pup and lived out his life at the Aquarium of the Pacific, where he participated in science experiments.
Charlie was rescued during an El Nino year as a pup and lived out his life at the Aquarium of the Pacific, where he participated in science experiments.
3/22/16
SEA OTTER BIRTH AT MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM - OTTERS ARE MAMMALS - THE MOTHER GROOMS THE BABY RIGHT AWAY
LA TIMES - SEA OTTER BIRTH AT MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
El Nino rains were coming down and making the sea rough, so the mother came into an area that is
part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a place where the waters were more sheltered and calm. Siren.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
El Nino rains were coming down and making the sea rough, so the mother came into an area that is
part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a place where the waters were more sheltered and calm. Siren.
11/18/14
SEA OTTER PUP WILL LEARN TO BE AN OTTER AT SHEDD AQUARIUM
Luckily this little otter has baby hair that allows it to float without much effort!
"Though stable, the orphaned otter will still need extra care and attention to ensure its transition is a success. Having been abandoned as a one-week-old pup, the baby otter must be essentially taught how to be an otter by the staff at Shedd. "It truly takes a village to rehabilitate a young sea otter. Our animal care team is teaching the pup how to be an otter," said Binder. "While the process is lengthy, our hands-on experience and long history rehabilitating sea otters allows us to use our expertise to work on saving this pup's life by providing her with a home and the care she needs." So far so good. The otter, which weighed roughly one pound when it was rescued -- tiny even for an otter pup -- is now over six pounds and is beginning to eat whole foods like shrimp and clams. She's grown to roughly 22 inches in length and is off the charts on the unofficial adorable scale."
"Though stable, the orphaned otter will still need extra care and attention to ensure its transition is a success. Having been abandoned as a one-week-old pup, the baby otter must be essentially taught how to be an otter by the staff at Shedd. "It truly takes a village to rehabilitate a young sea otter. Our animal care team is teaching the pup how to be an otter," said Binder. "While the process is lengthy, our hands-on experience and long history rehabilitating sea otters allows us to use our expertise to work on saving this pup's life by providing her with a home and the care she needs." So far so good. The otter, which weighed roughly one pound when it was rescued -- tiny even for an otter pup -- is now over six pounds and is beginning to eat whole foods like shrimp and clams. She's grown to roughly 22 inches in length and is off the charts on the unofficial adorable scale."
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