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sea otter
noun
- a marine otter, Enhydra lutris, of the shores of the northern Pacific, with a very valuable fur: now greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
sea otter
noun
- a large marine otter, Enhydra lutris, of N Pacific coasts, formerly hunted for its thick dark brown fur
Word History and Origins
Origin of sea otter1
Example Sentences
Scientists already knew sea otters have an extreme metabolism.
However, they can also give off heat via a process called nonshivering thermogenesis, which Wright and his team suspected was crucial for the sea otters.
“This could be a game changer in terms of how we think about the evolution of all marine mammals, not just sea otters,” says Terrie Williams, an ecophysiologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study.
Nutrient-rich urchins in the healthy kelp offer sea otters a far better snack.
They found that sea otters were eating three times as many sea urchins as they were before 2014, but they were being picky.
Of marine mammals the most characteristic are the sea-lion, fur-seal, sea-otter and harbour-seal.
"It was only a sea-otter," I tried to explain, thinking perhaps she did not care for snake stories.
The sea otter is among the swiftest swimmers of the mammals, but no air-breathing creature can compete in speed with a shark.
Within the house he saw chief Nas-nas-shup clothed in his robe of prime sea otter skins.
The skins of the sea otter are much prized by the Chinese, who pay for them from seventy to one hundred roubles a-piece.
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