Meanwhile, sea otters may snack on crabs, snails, urchins, clams, mussels and abalone, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Otters have very fast metabolisms and will eat 25% of their body ...

The return of sea otters, a top predator, to a California estuary is helping slow erosion and restore the estuary’s degraded geology. A sea otter in the estuarine water of Elkhorn Slough ...

believe that Tlingit should consume the animals as food in order for the harvesting of sea otters to not be considered wasteful. Contemporary Tlingit do not eat sea otter. By arguing that this ...

While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins exploded by over 300% and the density of kelp forests declined by 30%.

Congo clawless otters eat small vertebrates, frogs, and eggs. There are otters that do eat fish, however. Sea otters eat crabs, sea urchins, abalones, clams, mussels, snails, and slow-moving fish.