sea otter in English

noun

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an entirely aquatic marine otter of North Pacific coasts, formerly hunted for its dense fur. It is noted for its habit of floating on its back with a stone balanced on the abdomen, in order to crack open bivalve mollusks.

The sea otter 's range was restricted to the North Pacific basin, at least from the Pleistocene onward.

Use "sea otter" in a sentence

1. Monterey Bay Aquarium also works to save the sea otter.

2. Did the heat-insulating fur of the sea otter evolve?

3. Airspace HQ 5909 Sea Otter Place, Suite 200 Carlsbad, CA 92010

4. The Monterey Bay Aquarium also works to save the sea otter.

5. The sea otter can retract the claws on its front feet.

6. The sea otter relies on another insulation method —a thick fur coat.

7. The second kingdom to accomplish this is a form of sea otter.

8. Adam: Yes, there's a particular kind of sea otter whose habitat is threatened.

9. A young sea otter frolics in Monterey Bay, California, as a diver watches nearby.

10. Messrs. van Kooten and Abbot point to the divergent fates of the sea otter and beaver.

11. The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame; its suspicion of man came to it late.

12. Catalog Number 4616: (1) Tribe: Eskimo or Aleut Subject: "Sea Otter Hunters." Men using 3-hole Bidarkas

13. The Sea Otter was used by both the RAF and the Royal Navy for air-sea rescue and patrol roles.

14. These unique pouch-like structures undoubtedly help the sea otter to carry food and rocks from the seabed to the surface.

15. Baranof agreed to furnish Winship a number of his Aleut Indians with their Bidarkas to go to Alta California to hunt sea otter

16. The sites contain great species diversity, including the world's largest known variety of salmonoid fish and exceptional concentrations of sea otter, brown bear and Stellar's sea eagle .

17. 24 The sites contain great species diversity, including the world's largest known variety of salmonoid fish and exceptional concentrations of sea otter, brown bear and Stellar's sea eagle .

18. This involves community education and participation in abalone and sea otter stewardship, monitoring established abalone sites, surveillance and "coast-watch" activities, and a regional network of fishermen, community members and area operators.

19. This may lead some to wonder whether people who have to dive in cold waters may not be better off wearing a hairy wet suit —one similar to that of the sea otter!

20. After his crew returned to Russia with sea otter pelts judged to be the finest fur in the world, small associations of fur traders began to sail from the shores of Siberia toward the Aleutian Islands.

21. Sea otters have been hunted extensively for their luxurious fur – the densest of all mammals with up to 394,000 hairs per square centimeter or up to 1,000,000 hairs per inch. From 1741 onwards, over-hunting reduced sea otter populations to the point of extermination in many parts of their historic range.

22. ‘An Abalone farmer needs to know at what ammonia concentrations the Abalone will die.’ ‘There are less than a dozen white Abalones in captivity.’ ‘‘An Abalone can withstand assaults from a hungry sea otter pounding on its shell with a rock,’ he says.’ ‘In Abalone, a second major acrosomal protein also evolves extremely rapidly.’

23. The sea otter, a significant predator of northern abalone, is expanding its range in B.C. following extirpation and re-introduction. Most of the studies on the northern abalone population have been in the absence of sea otters and abalone recovery objectives are based on life history parameters that have been determined without the influence of sea otters.