Sea otters

Some time ago, I found an interesting fact about otters. And that inspired me to find more fun facts about these cute animals.

I’ll begin with the most cute one. During sleep, otters hold their hands to not drift apart. Moreover, if it comes to their babies, when they are too small to swim on their own, they use their mother as a taxi (they’re lying on her stomach). 

Sea otters can juggle. Well, maybe juggling is too exaggerated, because it more like throwing up a stone, but still, it quite impressive. And they can do this with two or three rocks. They are playing like that while lying on their backs and they can even do it with their eyes closed.

But why exactly they are carrying a rock with them? In fact, sea otters have some kind of attachments to certain stones and it is possible that they keep their favorites rocks for a lifetime!

The last fact isn’t fun at all, but at the end give us a hope. It comes to extinction of otters. Because of the fur trade, sea otters was hunted nearly to extinction, in the early 1900s. By the time, there left around 2,000 of them). Today, they are still considered as an endangered species, but the number of otters has increased to about 106,000.