Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on ...

Once a sea otter pup loses its baby fur, it can dive with its mother to learn how to find food. The pups are dependent on their mothers until they are fully weaned between 6-8 months old.

They attempted to pair her with a sea otter surrogate mother, but found her weight was ... the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. SeaWorld’s baby Emperor penguin joins colony in time for ‘Inside ...

North American river otter mom Tilly is teaching her new pup Mo how to swim by diving into the water with the baby animal at the Oregon Zoo A doting river otter mother is working on getting her ...

DESCRIPTION: Sea otters use their rear flippers to move and their flat ... On occasion, twins are born, yet because females provide all of the parental care and the mother otter can't care for both ...

London Zoo’s otter pups have decided it’s warm enough to take their first swims. The Asian short-clawed otter pups, born in January to first-time mother Midge, have spent their first few ...

The Calgary Zoo shared a video of two new otter pups with their mom on their social media for National Siblings Day and Canadian Wildlife Week. It’s been a month since a pair of baby otters were ...

MONTEREY – After a one-day online poll with almost 30,000 participants, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has announced it is naming its newest resident otter Opal. The aquarium is planning for Opal to ...

HAMANAKA, Hokkaido--Sea otters have pupped off Cape Tofutsu here in eastern Hokkaido. Four pairs of mothers and pups have been spotted since the beginning of July, in a community of up to 14 otters.