Sea Otters have discriminating palates

March 10, 2018  •  Leave a Comment

Lucky for me, sea otters tend to hang out near the marina in Seward, Alaska. On this morning, a little family was enjoying their breakfast crunch crunch crunching on mollusks retrieved from the sea floor. I love how well you can hear it in the video, but at least in the photo you can see how all that crunching leads to excellent oral hygiene! Look at those pearly whites!

My other photo shows a gross looking salmon with a decaying eyeball and it looks mostly dead in the photo. And yet, in the photo, it would appear that the sea otter is moving in for the final kill. However, in the video you can clearly see that this salmon approached these sea otters as if to say, "kill me, kill me, please!" But they don't want anything to do with this fish, and it is very much alive.

My sister took the video...she was "amazed".

Crunch, crunch, crunch Not for Breakfast


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