In the wild, baby sea otters can’t even swim on their ... The southern sea otter population lives in California and on the Baja Peninsula. Otters have not yet returned to the Oregon coast ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium located in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary along the Central Coast is home to southern or California, sea otters, which at nearly four feet long and weighing ...

She disappeared with her pup as December storms rolled in across the Pacific and walloped ... putting her baby's age at around 7 or 8 months. "Sea otters are naturally wary of people, but some ...

Baby sea otters are completely dependent on their mothers. Watch this mother sea otter groom her pup so the baby stays warm and buoyant.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter Program works to help the iconic species recover in population numbers and return to historical ranges along California’s coast. A new Sea Otter ...

Every day California sea otters spend 10 to 12 hours hunting and consume nearly a third of their body weight. Suzi Eszterhas Scientists have long designated the california sea otter a “keystone ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

The mother and pup shown above were spotted near Monterey, California ... until the pup develops its adult fur. Once a sea otter pup loses its baby fur, it can dive with its mother to learn ...