lutris kenyoni, also known as the Northern sea otter is the smallest marine mammal in North America. These adorable critters live along the coast of Southern Alaska, British Columbia and Washington. They stay in the water for the majority of their lives but remain close to shores for the purpose of hunting. Their diet consists of mollusks and crustaceans such as clams, snails, crabs and abalone (abalone being their absolute favorite). Northern sea otters have many unique characteristics: they have
Sohm & Dr. Nicole Sintov ENST 100 11 November 2014 Southern Sea Otter The Southern Sea otter has played an integral role in California’s ecosystem for billions of years and their population grew up to 18,000 in the early 1700s (Gerber). Southern Sea otters are a keystone species that help increase biodiversity in their environment as well as controlling population of other species such as sea urchins. In the 18th century, sea otters were being heavily hunted for their fur and their populations
First, the fact that the ocean is being polluted chemically is no longer a small scale environmental problem. With all the waste that humanity flush out to the sea, this is now consider a major world crisis for it deadly effects. Many of the waste that are flowing around in the ocean are chemically makeup. Example would includes plastic debris, crude oil from underground and many other man-made waste product. But let first discuss about plastic debris, for it’s the most common type of man-made chemical