Green crabs have invaded habitats. Sea otters might be the solution.
A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species’ ...
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'Adorable, Fluffy' Predator Is Decimating a Habitat's Invaders
"The otters are ... just [a] super voracious predator," says the reserve's Kerstin Wasson, co-author of a new study published ...
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Why Do Sea Otters Hold Hands While They Sleep?
If you’ve ever seen a picture or video of sea otters floating on their backs, holding hands as they snooze, you’ve probably ...
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Sea Otters in Alaska
Predators include humans -- otters are one of the subsistence species -- and killer whales. Bald eagles are known to hunt otter pups when other food is scarce. Biologist Jim Bodkin, who studies ...
Elkhorn Slough researchers find sea otter population helps stop invasion of green crabs
A recent study was published in the scientific journal Biological Invasions, detailing that otters at the Elkhorn Slough are ...
Out-of-control invasive species has met its match: Cute and hungry otters
West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In some places, otters are ...
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Green crabs have invaded habitats. Sea otters might be the solution.
But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters live, the cute apex predators have led to green crabs’ demise by eating up to 120,000 of the invasive species ...
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Out-of-control invasive species has met its match: Cute and hungry otters
"The otters are a just super voracious predator," said Kerstin Wasson, research coordinator with the Reserve. "We calculated that the current otter population here eats somewhere between 50,000 ...