February 18th, 2012. The photo is a little blurry but I made an exception this time as it was the best one that I could get of the extremely cute female pup at the aquarium.
February 18th, 2012. The photo is a little blurry but I made an exception this time as it was the best one that I could get of the extremely cute youngster at the aquarium. The female was born on January 14th, 2012.
Seattle Aquarium has had an impressive history with sea otters.
Copied and pasted from the aquarium's website:
The as-yet-unnamed otter is the second born to Aniak, and the latest in a line of sea otters born at the Aquarium. The Seattle Aquarium became the first institution in the world to raise the animals from conception to adulthood in 1979 with the birth of Tichuk. There have been a total of 10 sea otter births at the Aquarium, and eight of those pups lived to adulthood.
In recent years, the Seattle Aquarium, in collaboration with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, had suspended captive breeding to make room at its facility for beached and stranded sea otter pups. During the past several years, Aquarium biologists have monitored Aniak’s reproductive hormones and were surprised to discover her pregnancy late last summer.
