Sea Otters
Enjoy the antics of our playful southern sea otters as they romp, tumble and wrestle like their brethren in the bay. On the second floor of the exhibit you can watch them swim at the surface, while first-floor windows give an underwater view.
Exhibit News
In early January, a five-week-old sea otter was found stranded in Morro Bay and rescued by staff from the Aquarium’s Sea Otter Research and Conservation (SORAC) program and the California Department of Fish and Game. On February 18, the otter, named Kit after a fictional character in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus, became the youngest otter ever to go on exhibit at the Aquarium.
Did You Know?
- Sea otters have the world's densest fur—up to a million hairs per square inch! (You have 100,000 hairs or less on your whole head.)
- Sea otters live in loose-knit groups called rafts. Otters in rafts often sleep side-by-side, wrapped in strands of kelp so that they don't drift far from each other.
- Training and “enrichment” games keep our otters mentally and physically stimulated; it also makes working with the otters safer for us and less stressful for them.
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