A Growing Girl - Sea Otter Pup's Second Vet Exam! 

There have been a total of 10 sea otter births at the Aquarium, and eight of those pups lived to adulthood.

Don't think anything in the world is cuter than an otter pup!

Man, what a confident pup she was! Didn't complain during her exam, jumped right back into the water at the end, happily dunked her head under water (upside down, no less!), flippered her way around the enclosure like she owned the place... What a great girl!

One of our biologists recorded this video with her iPad as the vet was conducting the exam.

@strlightcutie521 Sea otters turn over as they eat to remove food debris from their chests as well as to store some of their food in loose skin folds under their arms.

They’re super cute as adults. Pups are irresistible.

Bless that baby and all the rest

My face hurts from smiling so much 😊

I've always been in love with otters. They are so adorable. I respect the wild in them. Glad they're growing healthy!

shrimp and barrel rolls..what fun for them...that pup is precious

She was probably thinking "Doesn't anyone want to be my mother"?So adorable💗💗💗

Oh my gosh that is so CUTE!

I suspect wo reasons: One is that the mother associates the trainers with food, play, and other good things in general, so she trusts them as much as an otter can. The other is that she's being constantly distracted with shrimp through the whole thing. It's only JUST enough to keep her from clambering out and swiping wildly at the vet, I would imagine.

So fluffy!!

They. Are. The. Cutest. ❤️

background..."will twirl for treats!"

Those lil flippers are so cute!

so cute!!!

In the name of physical examinations the vet got to knead all that floof to her heart’s content

Sooooooo cuuuttteeeeeeeee.... 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Awww precious lil floof!!

They are so tame and cute.

I love SEA otter.☺👍

Thanks! Keep Posting! I can't get enough of this pup! Way too~cute!

just who disliked this bundle of fluff, who?

Yes. Sea otters eat about 25% (!) of their body weight daily... and it needs to be high-quality, high-protein stuff like shrimp, crab, and clam (or sea urchin). So, yeah, that's a lot of shrimp they go through.

THIS IS SO CUTE ❤️

Thanks so much for this amazing video. So proud of you guys for another successful captive birth! May come this weekend to come this adorable little baby!

Adorable!! ❤❤❤

Wonderful!

Oh my god...best job ever!...I would squeeze that little fuzz bucket 😍

So adorable!!

How many pups is it now that have been born at the aquarium? I know you have the most successful captive breeding program and now yet another "grandotter" :)

Look at her swimming at only two and a half weeks old - that's sooo cute! All that bouyant fluff is like swimming with an inflated diving BC LOL

Too cute

man, that is the quietest otter pup i've ever seen! usually they're loud as fuck. not complaining though, they're both equally cute

0:27 Disregard Mum, check out the boot!

SO adorable! How come it looked like the pup had her head under water a lot of the time while swimming?

This creatures nepotism is so on point. It triggers human mothers caregiver response when they cry.

If you reunite Aniak with Sekiu, do you think they will recognize or remember each other?

cute

Why do the otters turn over as they are eating?

long trip by herself.🙂

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Hello sea otters :)

They d'ont stop Eating and Spinning ! Eating ! Spinning ! Eating ! ...

This is the life: cavorting in the water while people are feeding you 🍤!

@strlightcutie521 Do you think it'd be easier to eat FACE DOWN in the water??? LOL! They make their chests a "table" to eat off of.

why do they accept this treatment? do they know that the vet is trying to help them? you'd figure the pups parent would object to some large alien creature manhandling their pups. this is cute and i like it but just wondering.

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A movie will be made about them .animated or something They are movie material.

The pup made me all weak and mushy.

I can’t watch these without horrendous Japanese videos popping up on my feed :( the ones were people keep these wild beauties as pets inside their tiny apartments...

Women feed animals too fast and too much .

doesn't seem to make sense to feed them tons of expensive shrimp and shellfish, they will eat fish, and other proteins, Shell fish has such a low caloric density, you could feed them fatty fish and they would get the same caloric requirements in 1/4 the weight, I'm sure biologically they do need to eat a certain amount of shellfish, but I'm betting a good portion could be replaced with more nutrient dense foods to include complex carbs and fatty fish, probably reduce the food they have to eat to a more manageable 5% of body weight.