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Sea Otters

Recovery of sea otter populations yields more benefits than costs. Researchers have created a new model to evaluate the long-term economic benefits of top predator recovery, using sea otter recovery along the west coast of Canada as a case study. Source 9g.

Otters Sea

How otters' muscles enable their cold, aquatic life. Sea otters are the smallest marine mammal. As cold-water dwellers, staying warm is a top priority, but their dense fur only goes so far. We have long known that high metabolism generates the heat they need to survive, but we didn't know how they were producing the heat -- until now. Source 3m.