Sea Otters Research Paper

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Sea otters once ranged from Mexico to Alaska and even to Japan, It has soft fur and about a million hairs per square inch of skin,and it usually eats shellfish. They could probably live there entire life under water. It might be harder for them to get food but they could find a way. The sea otters live in fields of kelp in the Gulf of Mexico to California , all the way to Japan. They use the kelp as protection from predators. They will burrow themselves down inside of the leaves of the kelp to hide. sea otters usually breed in the patches of kelp this hides their pups from predators.

. Sea otters can live their entire life in the water this is because they have 1 million hairs per square inch of skin. This keeps them warm. There flexible

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