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UVU student receives grant to help sea otters
A zoology student at UVU uses a grant from National Geographic to raise awareness for sea otters. Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...
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What do otters eat? Here's what's on the menu for river vs sea otters.
Some can be found floating in freshwater rivers and lakes, while others swim across the Pacific Ocean, according to National Geographic ... Meanwhile, sea otters may snack on crabs, snails ...
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Siletz Tribe gets $1.56 million to reintroduce sea otters to coastal waters
After centuries of overhunting by fur traders, sea otters have largely disappeared from the Oregon and Northern California ...
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Endangered sea otters have a highly underrated job: eating 120,000 of these underwater terrors a year
was conducted at Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve - a coastal estuary also known as a "cradle of biodiversity" in Monterey Bay. The research team estimated that sea otters local ...
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Hungry Sea Otters Are Taking a Bite Out of California's Invasive Crab Problem, New Study Finds
Now, biologists have identified a new, furry ally in the fight against European green crabs: sea otters. At the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in California, hungry southern ...
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Out-of-control invasive species has met its match: Cute and hungry otters
At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten so many invasive European green crabs that researchers say the ...