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This is the average life span of a sea otter.
What is about 23 years?
100
This Sea Otter Prey has species known as dungeness, rock, yellow, red, and slender
What are crabs?
100
This human action decreased the otter population from 300,000 to the brink of extinction which began mid-1700s-1911.
What is overhunting?
100
Sea Otters make one of these each year, usually in the spring.
What are Sea Otter Pups/ Pups?
100
Due to the over hunting of the sea otter that almost brought the species to a near extinction, this effect is staggering the Sea Otters ability to have a healthy population.
What is the bottleneck effect?
200
These are called "kenyoni", "lutris", and "nereis".
What are the three subspecies of Sea Otters?
200
Without Sea Otters hunting this species, they will overtake the entire kelp forest because it is a dominant species.
What are Sea Urchins?
200
This human action removes access to creeks, the ocean, and other bodies of water so the otter can hunt and breed its preferred locations.
What is urbanization/construction/developing?
200
One can tell a female from male apart due to these on the female's nose, received usually during courtship and mating/
What are deep scars?
200
Without the Sea Otter, Sea Urchin's and other dominant species would do this and cause a cascade effect, hurting several species.
What is destroy/overrun the kelp forest?
300
This feature of a Sea Otter is the thickest of any mammal.
What is Fur?
300
The Sea Otter primarily uses a tool, such as a rock, to open this food source.
What is a clam?
300
This human activity destroys the abundance of food for the Sea Otter, making it less likely to reproduce.
What is over harvesting?
300
Sea Otters do this for each other by rubbing their natural oils together and removing access air.
What is grooming?
300
With the destruction of this, sea otters loose breeding grounds and locations to hunt. If humans increase/restore this, sea otter population becomes much more likely to grow.
What is the natural habitat of the sea otter (Mudflats, Marshes, Access to open ocean, sloughs, and creeks)?
400
This is the time of month that Sea Otter's Reproduce.
What is Early Spring?
400
This is the favorite prey of the Sea Otter.
What is Squid/ Octopus?
400
This human activity impairs Sea Otter reproduction and kills them off. Things such as organchloriens, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, metals, and tributyltin.
What is pollution? What are Contaminants?
400
Sea Otters do this activity by holding hands.
What is sleeping?
400
This is an important statistic that is an indicator of how the species is doing. In this case, how fast sea otters are dying.
What are mortality rates?
500
This resource of the Sea Otter can generate up to $589,100 in revenue to Monterrey Country, CA.
What is Sea Otter Tourism?
500
The Sea Otter devours this prey. If it sees it, it will take away, save it for later, or eat it then. Only ones who live under large rocks won't get eaten.
What are Abalones?
500
Pollution causes this disease which is mostly caused by kitty litter contaminants entering the water. The greatest threat to Sea Otters.
What is encephalitis by Toxoplasma gondii?
500
This action is known as periscoping.
What is swimming?
500
This natural phenomena that occurs with tides, dictates where the otters will go to mate and reproduce, effecting the otter's behavior.
What are tidal regimes?