Search results for "Sea otter" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • North America, and South America. The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is the ... *Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) [[Image:Olympic Nat Park River Otter.JPG ...
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  • and walruses), and several otters (the sea otter and marine otter). Some ... blubber (vascularized fat). However, the sea otter, unlike most marine mammals ...
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  • attempting to drive bears from kills. The sea otter uses rocks to break open ... Mustelids, with the exception of the sea otter (Kenyon 1969), have ...
    14 KB (2,082 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
  • seals (or true seals), and eared seals (sea lions and fur seals). They ... * Sea otter ==References== * Flynn, J., J. Finarelli, S. Zehr, J. Hsu ...
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  • Sea urchin is the common name for various spiky echinoderms within ... especes/species/species_seaOtter_e.asp Sea otter.] Fisheries and Oceans ...
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  • (skunks), as well as the pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses). ... attempting to drive bears from kills. The sea otter uses rocks to break open ...
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  • Fur trade first annihilated the sea otter and then focused on the ... Aleut coat made from bird skins and sea otter fur.]] The Aleut people ...
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  • recently extinct species, Neovison macrodon (sea mink; synonym Mustela macrodon ... Many other animals, like the fur seal, sea otter, river otter, and beaver ...
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  • Sea life. The Oligocene oceans had some resemblance with today's fauna. Bivalves were present. The baleen and toothed cetaceans (whales ...
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  • south axis, Florida-like, between the Bering Sea to the east and the Sea of ... As early as 1882, the peninsula's sea otter population came under protection ...
    9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
  • with an outstretched net suspended over the sea 20 m (65.6 feet) long and ... to cause the net to descend into the sea. The net is left for a short ...
    17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 March 2024
  • to enslave the Aleuts, especially for sea otter hunting. The Russians captured ... on the labor of Aleut hunters to collect sea otter pelts. Soon after the Russians ...
    24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
  • (otarids) and include fur seals and sea lions. As with all pinnipeds ... larger, and faster swimming than the sea otters, which have retained ...
    18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
  • minimize the by-catch. Preservation of the sea bed, including the spawning ... is towing the trawl along or close to the sea floor. Bottom trawling can ...
    14 KB (2,235 words) - 14:52, 2 May 2023
  • seals, from the eared seals (fur seals and sea lions) of the family Otariidae. ... seal was nearly exterminated and monk sea populations were greatly depleted; ...
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  • Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, separating the Sea of Okhotsk on the west from ... vitulina Kurilensis), a subspecies of sea otter (Enhydra lutris kurilensis ...
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  • meaning that was where the river flowed when sea level was lower. It is not ... and some of the water can be as salty as sea water. It runs from the mouth ...
    21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
  • the great optimism engendered by opening a sea route to the East. ... from rocky mountain tops to beaches and open sea, the Cape of Good Hope is ...
    15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
  • its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), ... both of which are sometimes known as "sea cows" for their grazing ...
    18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
  • for termites. Other animals also use tools; sea otters, for example, place rocks on their chests to break sea urchins. Gorillas use sticks and ...
    12 KB (1,781 words) - 07:13, 1 January 2024

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