That specific baby otter you saw is Otter 501. She was rehabilitated through the Monterey Bay Aquarium. You can search her up, there are also videos of her
I love how sea otters are so cute in every camera angle. The best part I love about them is when they hold paws together to make a raft, washing their faces with their cute paws and of course ...last but not the least ...is when the mother's groom their little pups. 🥰😍👍🏼
@@bari2883 Yes, they use rocks as tools. Several animals use tools, including many primates, but also dolphins, crows and others. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals
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Thanks for the video, but a quibble from the evolutionary biologist in me: saying the scaly pattern of the hair cuticle is an adaptation for living in the water is a stretch, the sort of misinterpretation that led us to invent phylogenetic comparative methods. Just because a trait is different in two species doesn't mean it's an adaptation. Turns out all mustelids (weasel family, includes the otters) have that same sharp petaled pattern, even the terrestrial ones like weasels, martens, sables, wolverines, etc. Coyotes look different because, well, coyotes are in the dog family; they're not closely related. If the scales were an adaptation for aquatic living, they should have different morphology in terrestrial and aquatic mustelids, which we don't really see. That being said, I do appreciate the clip. It's always nice to see mustelids in the news and cool to teach people about different strategies for insulation.
Tristan McKnight Hi Tristan- Thank you very much for your comment, we’re so pleased to have evolutionary biologists in our audience. You hit on an important point, one we spent quite a while discussing during the scripting. We didn't mean to imply that barbed scales on the sea otter hairs are adaptations that evolved for living in the marine environment. Instead, we only meant that the barbed scales help keep the sea otter warm in the ocean. By comparison, coyotes and other dogs do not have barbed scales and they would not be offered the same benefit should they attempt to wade into the waves. Thanks again for your comment.
In order to be twice the temperature, one must use an absolute temperature scale. Ex. Celsius or Rankine. Saying 100 f is twice as hot as 50 f is not true. It would be 311K to 283K respectively. 311/283 = 1.10 or 10 percent warmer
the silly part of this, and how can we get instant hyperthermia, from 50 degree f water. I kind of facepalmed considering ive had colder thrown on me in my life.
Science error at 0:27 and in the video description!!! Saying 100 F is twice as hot as 50 F is incorrect because Fahrenheit is not an absolute scale and the zero point is arbitrary with respect to magnitude. 100 F is only about 10% hotter than 50 F (using - 460 F as an approximation of absolute zero)
Hi PaulEx- Thanks for your comment. You’re right about the line in the narration describing how the sea otter’s body temperature compares to the water temperature. We shouldn’t have said “twice as warm" since Fahrenheit is not an absolute temperature scale. Thank you for helping us talk about temperature more accurately in the future.
I was watching it with smile until the drawing of skinned otters...absolutely heart-breaking.. * altho I get that maybe in the old days there was no other good materials to make a coat, but nowadays there are plenty of plastic materials to make good functional clothes.
Interesting video, but I was surprised there was no mention of their basic heat source (the heat that all that special fur is trapping) - massive amounts of food consumed.
Otters are my favorite thank for making this video sea otters are my spirit animal and i am a capicorn so if i was a mix with both i would be a ram otter
I keep reading fantastic four every time I scroll down the popular right now playlist and every time for some stupid reason I get all excited thinking it's a reveal trailer for the new fantastic four movie, then a split second later I double check and get overwhelmed with disappointment.
I see sea otters, they are very cute. They eat a lot, and dive for their food. Sea otters and coyotes live within a few miles of each other in California.
The thickness of their fur varies with temperature. Here in Alaska they have much thicker fur during the colder months then the summer. Many of them will have higher seasonal fat reserves as well, and their fat layer may be an inch thick in winter and almost non-existent during the summer. These are observations from a sea otter hunter that has skinned out over 100 sea otters in Alaska. I should also mention that the few square mile area where I hunt has as many sea otters as there are in all of California, so abundance is not an issue.
