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Thank you for watching!
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But it's about 18 to 20 hours a day.
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Once they are 8 weeks old and beyond, they will be eating solid food
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and can dive and forage a little bit better.
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Not all the way, but a little bit better.
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And that is where an introduction to a surrogate mom should happen
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because that mom is going to teach them all of the behaviors
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that we cannot teach being people.
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They need to learn from otters, and that is the best way to do it
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is to pair it with an adult female.
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That adult female will start to mimic behaviors that the pup should learn
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will help it groom, will help it forage
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will help teach it prey manipulation, how to open up shells
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and anything that they would need to know
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that humans are unable to teach them.
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What these two girls are doing, we do have some more enrichment
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that we'll be passing on once they finish these items.
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So cute! Look at that guy!
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So typically in Monterey Bay area, Santa Cruz, that type of area.
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And that population was almost wiped out due to the fur trade.
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So up through the early 1900s, they were hunted to almost extinction.
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In fact, on this coastline, it was thought they were extinct, California coastline.
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In the mid-30s, a remnant population was discovered just off of Big Sur
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And by that point, they technically were protected under federal law.
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And so that remnant population over the last 80 years
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has gone from about 50 animals up to 3,000.
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So they currently occur, southern sea otters, just north of Santa Barbara
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all the way up to just south of San Francisco.
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Sea otters are ecosystem engineers.
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And so they're a keystone predator in their near coastal environments.
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And basically what that means is that they are a critical sort of predator
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in that system that keeps herbivores like sea urchins in check
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so that sea urchins don't overpopulate and take out kelp forests
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and eelgrass beds, as an example.
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And this is super important because if those populations,
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get out of control, then the seagrass and the kelp ecosystems,
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they get destroyed.
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And those are incredibly important ecosystems.
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They create biodiversity.
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They create protection against climate events.
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And it is an incredibly powerful tool in carbon sequestration.
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And so it's a very important tool in carbon sequestration.
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And so it's a very important tool in carbon sequestration.
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Well, they are cute. I'm going to give you that.
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Like even me, I've worked with them for a long time
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and I still have to admit they're cute.
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Them looking cute is not what their behavior is.
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They're in the weasel family, mustelids.
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And they can be very like badgers, weasels, wolverines.
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They're very territorial.
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They are water-based and so we don't interact with them a lot.
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But even though they look cute and cuddly,
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they are just a wolverine in the water.
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So sea otters as a species or as an individual,
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they eat about 25% of their body weight per day.
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Of sea otters, they eat about 25% of their body weight per day.
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seafood, or restaurant-quality seafood.
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So we have an animal that weighs about 45 pounds,
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it's eating about 10 to 12 pounds of food per day.
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So the big cost is the food cost for these guys.
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To feed them every day, or sorry, for one year,
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one otter is about $40,000.
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That is a bill that the aquarium fronts themselves.
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And so we are constantly doing fundraising,
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and when guests come to support the aquarium and visit,
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a portion of those proceeds come to support these conservation programs.
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Practice a little bit, and then if the pup is still having a hard time,
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the pup will give the food back to Millie,
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she'll crack it and give it back to the pup.
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It's a shift in my field, in our field,
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where we're in the, I want to say the business,
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but that makes it sound so clinical.
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We're passionate about working with and saving animals,
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and we're used to spending most of our career with a subset of animals,
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so we've had to work with the team a lot to go,
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this is a bigger purpose, this is a higher challenge.
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And so we invest, and we invest a lot,
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but we've all now learned and appreciate,
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boy, you see that juvenile otter survive out in the wild,
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that feels incredible.
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See y'all in the next video.
