OTTERS!

testimonial
Angela Doroff
Sea otter, North America
In the mid-1980s, in Alaska
and California with the
University of Minnesota,
I would spend my days
behind a field spotting
scope, recording feeding
and social behaviors of
Sea otters. Through winter
storms, mudslides and even
wildfires we documented
time and activity budgets,
reproduction rates, survival,
and movement patterns for
northern and southern sea
otters. I found a home in the
near-shore marine habitats
that these mostly marine
critters evolved to create.
I’ve continued to work with
sea otters since then and
I’ve never tired of it: they
continually surprise me.
There is always something
new to learn from sea
otters: over time I’ve seen
each preconceived notion
I had about their behavior
overturned by more
observation! So, there has
always been a deep joy in
working with sea otters for
me.
They also tell us a lot about
how we are currently living
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