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Top predator species once nearly extinct makes promising comeback: 'Good to have this species back in the role it's always played'
"To have them back on the landscape after being gone for so long, it's really bringing back that native part of the landscape ...
Medicine Buffalo7y
A giant, prehistoric otter's surprisingly powerful bite
“We don’t know for sure, but we think that this otter was more of a top predator than living species of otters are,” Tseng says. “Our findings imply that Siamogale could crush much harder and larger ...
PBS7y
Sea Otters in Alaska
Predators include humans -- otters are one of the subsistence species -- and killer whales. Bald eagles are known to hunt otter pups when other food is scarce. Biologist Jim Bodkin, who studies ...
BBC1y
A surfboard-stealing otter is on the run
Mark Woodward/Native Santa Cruz Otter 841 has been seen catching some waves Smart and wily, otters are top predators of invertebrates, foraging and eating a quarter of their own body weight in ...
Animal Welfare Institute4y
Predator Protection Is Just Ecologic, Economic Logic
In the Pacific Ocean, the recovery of some sea otter populations has reduced urchin numbers, allowing kelp forests to recover and benefiting a diversity of species that rely on kelp as food and ...