using their bellies as tables as they get to work on opening and eating their snacks. A female sea otter floats in Monterey Bay, off the coast of California, with an anvil-like rock on her belly that ...

It lets the otters eat certain larger prey and reduces ... Among the prey were sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, clams, snails and fat innkeeper worms. The shells of certain larger prey ...

most likely due to just sea otters eating on them. So they’re forced to switch to alternative prey,” Law said. Here is where the tools come in. The alternate prey includes clams and other hard ...

Otters carry large stones between their forepaws on these dives, used to dislodge prey and to break open shells. Their diet includes clams, crabs, sea urchins, starfish, abalone, and 40 different ...

like abalone and sea urchins, are not tough to open - when they are available. But in some years, these food sources are reduced, and the otters turn to other sustenance like clams, crabs, mussels, ...

Clean water, a smorgasbord of food—clams, crabs, mussels, and urchins—and a ban on otter hunting and ... down and bring what they’re eating to the surface and kind of wave it around for you,” says Ben ...

Thrissur: Rekha Karthikeyan from Ethai near Engandiyur in Thrissur, the first woman in India to get a licence for deep-sea fishing, is now trying to eke out a living by picking clam shells.

NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: Sea otters frolic off the ... so these otters have to eat alternative foods. GREENFIELDBOYCE: Foods with hard shells - clams, crabs and snails - which are abundant ...

“Urchins and abalone are both declining in populations, most likely due to just sea otters eating on them ... The alternate prey includes clams and other hard shell creatures.