Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters are primarily insulated by fur, not blubber. In fact they have the densest fur in the animal kingdom. Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters ...

Sea otters are the smallest of the marine mammals, and do not have this thick layer of blubber. Instead, they are insulated by the densest fur of any mammal, with as many as a million hairs per ...

"Sea otters," says marine biologist Jim Bodkin, " have absolutely the finest fur in the animal kingdom. If you've ever held one in your hands, you would know why. They have an incredibly dense and ...

That thick coat proved too tempting to hundreds ... and the United States. Before the fur trade exploded, scientists estimate, as many as 300,000 sea otters roamed northern Pacific shores, from Japan ...

Sea otters, which had long been hunted for their thick and soft fur, have slowly rebounded on the West Coast since the early 1900s. They were believed to be extinct until a small population was ...

"SEA OTTERS GROOM. THEY THEY LICK THEIR FUR. THEY INGEST THINGS FROM THEIR FUR. SO IT'S CONCEIVABLE THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE INGESTED, SOME PARTICULATE MATTER THAT MIGHT HAVE SETTLED OUT OF THE SMOKE ...

Sea otters were hunted and completely driven out from B.C.’s coast by the early 20th century due to the popularity of their thick, dense fur in the fur trade. Between 1969 and 1972, some 89 sea otters ...

After centuries of overhunting by fur traders, sea otters have largely disappeared from the Oregon and Northern California ...

They have the densest fur in the animal kingdom ... Before then, southern sea otters had been hunted for their soft thick pelts and were thought to be extinct. From those few survivors found ...