Otter Pups
Newborn pups can weigh up to how many pounds?
They can weigh up to 3 or 5 pounds.
What family are the otters part of?
The weasel family! Can you believe it?
Otters are not endangered, true or false?
False, their numbers have reduced rapidly!
Where do otters live?
They live on the coast of the Pacific ocean.
How old will the mother be when she mates?
She will be around 4 to 5 years old.
Does the otter sleeps during the afternoon or during the morning?
The afternoon, it hunts during the morning!
What caused the otters to die out?
They were largely hunted for their fur.
What do they eat?
They eat sea urchins, and marine invertebrates.
What season do otters give birth during?
Trick question! There isn't a specific season, they can give birth year round!
The sea otter has the thinnest fur of any animal but has a big layer of blubber underneath, true or false?
False, the sea otter has the thickest fur of any animal!
The numbers used to be 150,000-300,000 but numbers reduced to what?
1,000-200
Otters have to eat very frequently because every time they rest or do an activity they lose a lot of calories. So to maintain their body weight they have to eat more. This means that they have...
High Metabolism!
A otter pups fur is so dense that it can't what?
Otter pups have fur that is so dense that they can't dive underwater!
Around how many pieces of hair, or hair follicles are there per square inch?
There are around 600,000 to 1,000,000 hair follicles per square inch!
To help them the Marine Bay aquarium has...
To help them… Marine Bay aquarium has got 5 female otters that cannot live in the wild. They rescue pups and those females act as mothers for those pups until they are ready to go into the wild.
A group of Otters is called a clump. True or false?
False, its called a raft!
The male will be faithful to the female his whole life, true or false?
False! After the female gets pregnant the male will leave to mate again!
The otter can live its whole live on water because it cannot walk on land! True, or false?
False! It can live its whole life in water, but it can also walk on land.
We should save them because?
They eat sea urchins that would devour the kelp if they weren't controlled and withought the kelp fish would die out and anything that can only eat fish would die out.
Otters have very sharp teeth that they use against other otters, true or false?
True!