{"id":83,"date":"2019-03-12T23:10:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T23:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/n3-seaotter\/"},"modified":"2020-12-08T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:49:10","slug":"n3-seaotter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/n3-seaotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Otters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Jenni Johnson
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Sea
\nOtters<\/font><\/p>\n

Do you think there are sea otters
\nliving here in the Puget Sound?<\/font><\/p>\n

You may think “NO! There
\nare no sea otters in the Puget Sound”. Well, think again\u2026 there
\nmay not be a lot of sea otters in the Puget Sound but there are some.<\/font><\/p>\n

One reason why you might jump
\nto the conclusion that there ore not sea otters in the Puget Sound is because
\nthey don’t live in big groups and so they ore not easy to see. The sea otters
\nlive with other sea otters especially when they are pups. While some older
\nsea otters live together, not do and those that do may not all of the time.
\nSo it is hard to see if there are sea otters in the Puget Sound because
\nthe see otters are not in a huge clumps. The sea offers hardly ever go far
\noff shore and if they do go off shore it is a maximum of half a mile that
\nthey would go because they don’t want to be so far away from their home
\nand food. They spend most of their life in water. So, that makes two reasons
\nwhy you might make the mistake that the sea otter does not live here in
\nthe Puget Sound.

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\nThese sea otters are carnivores but they don’t eat other mammals. The sea
\notter eats sea urchins, crabs, clam, oyster, abalone (a mollusk) and different
\ntypes of fish. These three to four feet tall creatures (sea otters) eat
\nabout five thousand pounds of food a year. Now no one would have guessed
\nthat, now would they? <\/font><\/p>\n

Now sea otters are great hunters
\nthanks to their fur. Their fur keeps them warm. Little air bubbles get in
\nthe fur and that is what keeps them warm. But also they have two layers
\nof fur one is a tall layer and one is a short layer. The short layer is
\nthe one that traps the air bubbles. If oil got on their fur the fur would
\nbe considered matted and the air bubbles wouldn’t be able to get in and
\nthe sea otter would then eventually get cold and die. But the sea otter’s
\nfur is very thick. A matter of fact it has over one hundred thousand more
\nhairs per square inches then a full grown dog.<\/font><\/p>\n



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