In this video a southern sea otter mother and pup hauled out on land and grooming on October 30, 2016.
Welcome to Southern Sea Otters. We have hundreds of high-resolution ASMR videos of wild Southern Sea Otters (California Sea Otters), Great Egrets, Blue Herons, White Herons, Pelicans, Snowy Plovers, Willets, Great Cormorants, and other subjects living in the Elkhorn Slough of the Moss Landing Wildlife Area located along the central California coastline of Monterey Bay in Monterey County California, 95039; 1-1/4 miles north of the town of Moss Landing on Hwy 1. These are my personal videos made for my own autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) in order to relax myself at home by watching the full HD videos on my flat panel or on my smart phone while mobile.
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The subspecies Enhydra Lutris Nereis is a keystone species; exhibits tool use behavior; has the densest fur in the entire animal kingdom; and are the smallest of all marine mammals with adult females and males averaging 46 and 64 pounds, respectively. Southern Sea Otters protect themselves from the frigid water with their clean, dense, water resistant fur for insulation against the cold and by consuming more calories, around 4000 calories per day, overall eating about 25 percent of their body mass per day to maintain their body temperature and high metabolic rate. Depending on factors such as habitat, sex, reproductive status, and per-capita prey availability, obtaining this quantity of food requires that Southern Sea Otters spend 20-50 percent of the day foraging.
Male California Sea Otters live 10 to 15 years in the wild; female California Sea Otter live 15 to 20 years in the wild. Both male and female California Sea Otters are up to 4 feet long; with females up to 60 pounds, males up to 90 pounds, and pups are around 3-5 pounds when born. Their lives are spent foraging for shellfish such as crabs, snails, mussels, shrimp, and mollusks; and many kinds of invertebrates including sea urchins, abalone, clams, sea stars, squid and octopuses.
The 2019 census of Southern Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris nereis), also known as California sea otters, was conducted from early May to early July 2019. The 3-year average of combined counts was 2,962. That is a decrease of 166 Southern Sea Otters from the index for 2018 of 3,128 Southern Sea Otters; 58 fewer than 2017. California Sea Otters are the most threatened of any type of Sea Otter in the world.
Southern Sea Otters are listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act and are primarily at risk from Great White Shark bite mortality or the resulting fatal infection; that is because the northernmost rookery of Great White Sharks (Carcharodon Carcharias) in California is located just a few miles to the north at Seacliff State Beach, bordering the heart of Seacliff Village (a small collection of shops and restaurants along Center Avenue) in the Seacliff Neighborhood of Aptos California, 95003 (8 miles south of the surfing Mecca of Santa Cruz California, 95060). Great White Sharks are routinely seen only few yards away from the icon of the neighborhood; the sunken concrete ship S.S. Palo Alto, in the northern region of the Monterey bay; usually it is the adolecents or the adult males around 11 to 13 feet long and 1,200 pounds that are seen; but the females, locally, can be up to 21 feet long and weigh 2,400 pounds.
In the ocean, it is Great White Sharks and Sea Lions. In the air, it is Eagles (which eat otter pups). And on the land, it is Bears, Coyotes, and Bobcats. The growing pressure from these apex predators has led to a lack of meaningful range expansion for the Enhydra Lutris Nereis; the California Sea Otter.
Other risks to the California Sea Otters are being exposed to pollutants and pathogens washed down rivers from cities and coastlands including biotoxins, like microcystin, produced during harmful algal or cyanobacterial blooms and disease-causing pathogens such as the protozoal parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona, and acanthocephalan parasites.
Other threats to southern sea otters include entrapment or entanglement in fishing gear; oil spills can cause contamination of their extremely high quality luxurious fur coats by oily substances, which can destroy its insulating properties and lead to hypothermia and death.
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Contact Information:
Name: Cliff Toalson
Address: 200 Ross Ave #13 Freedom CA, 95019
Profession: Internet Developer
Hobby: Filming Southern Sea Otters and other fauna in the Moss Landing Wildlife area at Moss Landing California
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