Watching sea otters sleep and cuddle as they float may be cute.
Watching them eat — jaws cracking and tearing open shellfish, slurping the insides — is a different story.
A new study published in the journal Nature says these predators’ voracious appetite may be helping make a salt marsh in California more climate-resilient.
“They eat a lot. They eat about a quarter to a third of their body weight every single day,” explained Tim Tinker, a research ecologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and one of the study’s Canadian co-authors. “And so whatever they’re eating, they’re going to have
