View Sea Otter Physical Characteristics UK
View Sea Otter Physical Characteristics UK. It also included kamchatka, and as far south as japan. Sea otters are the only otters to give birth in the water.
However potential designations could be based on both demography and habitat characteristics that currently allow sea otter persistence in some locations.
Male sea otters usually weigh 22 to 45 kg (49 to 99 lb) and are 1.2 to 1.5 m (3 ft 10 in to 4 ft 10 in) in length, though specimens to 54 kg (120 lb) have been recorded. Sea otters, enhydra lutris (linnaeus, 1758), are the largest member of the family mustelidae (70 species of river otters, skunks, weasels, badgers, etc.) and are the smallest marine mammal in north america. Province of british columbia ministry of rior to decimation by the fur trade, sea otters were found in a great arc around the north pacific: 41 years later and counting, their conservation status remains unchanged and their future uncertain.