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How Sea Otters Keep Warm – Received from Ashley Gaylord in North Carolina Q: Do Sea Otters have blubber to keep them warm if they live off the Alaska coastline?

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How Sea Otters Keep Warm – Received from Ashley Gaylord in North Carolina Q: Do Sea Otters have blubber to keep them warm if they live off the Alaska coastline?

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Sea otters keep warm in Alaska, not by having blubber but by having extremely dense fur. In fact, sea otters have the thickest fur of any mammal on earth! In one square centimetre there are more hairs on a sea otter’s fur than there is on your entire head! Sea otters have two layers of fur, one is a dense down layer close to their skin and the second layer consists of longer, coarser hairs that extend above the down layer. Sea otters keep extra warm by constantly grooming themselves, they blow air into their fur, that gets trapped in the down layer and therefore provides a warm insulating air layer next to their skin. For more information on sea otters check out our sea otter web page and our Sea Otter Stewardship site! BACK TO SEAL INDEX OR ANSWER FILE Declining Sea Otter Populations – Received from Lanette in California Q: What information do you have on the recent decline of the Alaskan sea otter? A: For Northern populations of sea otters, salmon gill nets are still a major cause of

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