Threats
An environmental disaster, such as the 1989 Exxon Valdez event, coats sea otters in this substance, causing loss of insulation and poisoning if ingested.
What is oil?
One of the three aquariums working in the Sea Otter Surrogacy Program.
What is the Monterey Bay Aquarium/the Aquarium of the Pacific/the Shedd Aquarium?
This is the US law from 1972 that protects sea otters from hunting and disturbance.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act?
The "Max" length a sea otter can reach.
What is 5 Feet?
This Marine Mammal is the most endangered in the world.
What is a vaquita?
Human activities such as boat traffic and fisheries can cause this type of accidental injury or death to sirenians.
What are collisions or incidental killing?
The full name of the AZA.
What is the Association of Zoos & Aquariums?
These programs in Alaska and Washington moved sea otters back into areas where they were wiped out by fur trade.
What are translocation programs?
The name for a large group of sea otters.
What is a Raft?
This country is home to the largest aquarium in the world, with over 75 million liters of water capacity.
What is China?
Loss of this underwater forest ecosystem threatens sea otters, as it leads to overpopulation of sea urchins that destroy their habitat.
What is Kelp?
The approximate number of manatees in captivity.
What is <200?
Conservationists restore this essential marine plant using seed dispersal and water quality improvements.
What is sea grass?
The diet of Sirenians.
What are Herbivores?
Sirenians got their name because sailors mistook them for the mythical half-fish women said to lure men with their beauty.
What are sirens?
This single celled protozoan, originating from domestic cats, causes a deadly brain infection in sea otters that prevents them from diving and grooming.
What is Toxoplasma gondii?
The year the Sea Otter Surrogacy Program was established.
When is 2002?
After oil spills, conservation centers do this to help otters.
What is cleaning and rehabilitating fur?
Sirenians lack this.
What are Hindlimbs?
The year Katja started working for DIS.
What is 2019?
Severe storms and temperature extremes threaten sirenians, with cold stress occurring below this specific water temperature in Celsius.
What is 20°C (68°F)?
The age that the oldest living manatee in captivity, Snooty, lived to.
What is 69?
In Florida and the Caribbean, these areas are legally designated to protect manatees by requiring boats to slow down to prevent collisions.
What are manatee slow speed zones?
The number of furs per sq in. sea otters have.
What are one million?
Sea otters spend up to 48% of their daylight hours doing this.
What is grooming?