Rescuers are saving baby sea otters in the hopes of someday repopulating much of the West Coast with them. But they have to do so without loving them to death.
— all in an effort to repopulate portions of the planet humans have stripped of native animal inhabitants.
Hazan knew the orphaned otter, eventually dubbed Otter 936, belonged in the bay. But it would be a long journey back into the wilderness — for this pup, and for its entire species.Sea otters are born survivors. Nearly wiped out by fur hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries, California’s population would have been gone for good had a raft of a few dozen not eluded the slaughter off the rocky coast of Big Sur.
Hazan has worked at the aquarium for 15 years. She got into this business, she admitted, because she “wanted to play with animals.”“If you’re dealing with critical-care animals, that’s what you’re looking at,” she said. “You’re looking at an animal that needs your help. You’re not looking at a fuzzy, charismatic, adorable animal. Your mind-set changes.”Over the past four decades, Monterey Bay Aquarium has rescued, raised and released hundreds of pups back into the Pacific.
To teach rescued pups what it takes to make it in the wild, Hazan pairs each baby with one of the aquarium’s adult female otters. Back at the aquarium, she stocked an empty tank with the bounty from the beach, which in addition to the urchins included some 300 mussels and a thick strand of feathered kelp several times her length.offer a free lunch. Wading into the tank, she tucked the mussels and other food morsels between piles of rocks in the enclosure so the prey could cling on — just like it does in the wild.
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