Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Southern sea ...
sea otters eat nearly a quarter of their body weight in food every day - and their diet is not just limited to crabs. Sea otters also snack on sea snails, clams, mussels, fish, and sea urchins.
Otters eat a variety of animals, such as clams, sea urchins, and mussels, but they still fit green crabs into their diets in Elkhorn Slough. There are about 3,000 southern sea otters in California ...
Otters carry large stones between their forepaws on these dives, used to dislodge prey and to break open shells. Their diet includes clams, crabs, sea urchins, starfish, abalone, and 40 different ...
I believe that no red sea urchins, no abalone and no clams are on the Central Coast because of the import of the northern sea otter (an alien species). Sea urchins, abalone and clams keep the reef ...
But sea otters don't have blubber, so they have to eat an enormous amount of food every day," said Wasson. While clams are their preferred food, the sinuous sea creatures were more than happy to ...