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However, the IUCN still lists the sea otter as an endangered species, and describes the significant threats to sea otters as oil pollution, predation by orcas, poaching, and conflicts with fisheries – sea otters can drown if entangled in fishing gear. [1]
When a sea otter becomes entangled in fishing gear, they are at risk of starvation, infection, physical trauma, and exhaustion. A sea otter diving and foraging for food or wrapping up in kelp may come into contact with fishing line, hooks, or lures that were lost by fishers, particularly those fishing from shore.
11 Ιαν 2023 · Sea otters are rebounding from near extinction. Not everyone is happy. How can these voracious mammals be reintegrated into a world that changed while they were gone? At once calm and agile...
This chapter describes foraging behaviour, and the success rates and factors that influence this. Diving of Eurasian and sea otters is quantified (depths, timing) and analysed in some detail. Some species fish cooperatively. Sea otters use tools for foraging.
Sea otters help ecosystems capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it as biomass and deep-sea detritus, preventing it from being converted back to carbon dioxide and contributing to...
They also dine on such aquatic creatures as sea urchins, crabs, squid, octopuses, and fish. Sea otters are the only otters to give birth in the water.
16 Σεπ 2021 · Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are a charismatic marine species that are among some of the smallest marine mammals but have a larger body size when compared to their fresh-water dwelling relatives, the river otters. Sea otters are known for their incredibly dense layer of fur, allowing for survival in cold water environments.
