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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“Opal may act as a surrogate mother to orphaned sea otter pups as part of our sea otter surrogacy program,” the aquarium wrote. The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s newest sea otter, Opal. is seen ...