Dr. Chris J. Law

The reason why the mom is trying to dry it out, it's just to conserve heat.

It's also cleaning the fur.

So otters spend like a third of their life just cleaning, grooming.

Because they rely on that fur as that insulation, they have to make sure that it's clean from all that dirt or debris or whatever to make sure it's actually functioning so that fur doesn't clump up and expose its skin to the cold environment.

So they really, really want to

get those pups nice and clean.

And usually it also happened to dry them out.

Right.

Okay.

Oh no.

Yeah.

Sea otters, sea otters are born to be in the water.

So,

But don't quote me on that.

What river otters do a lot, though, is that they'll mark territory.

So they'll basically leave scent marks all over the place.

And they might go to the same location all the time just to make sure that that's, you know, the boundary of their territory.

So maybe that is related to that.

So otters, or at least sea otter teeth, look very similar to ours.

At least their molars.