Enjoy the playful antics of our sea otters

The southern sea otters in our Sea Otters exhibit love to play with toys, lounge in ice buckets or just snooze. We feed our exhibit otters several times a day, often putting the food in toys to stimulate the otters' natural behavior of pounding and working to get food out of shells.

Our aquarists also teach the otters behaviors, like holding a target with their paws or walking onto a scale. Training keeps our otters mentally and physically stimulated — it also makes working with the otters safer for us and less stressful for them.

We give each of our otters regular breaks behind the scenes. Sometimes they're working as a companion or surrogate with our Sea Otter Program; sometimes they're just getting a chance to enjoy live food they don't get on exhibit. Not to worry — they'll be back to join their gal pals soon!

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