The Fantastic Fur of Sea Otters | Deep Look
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2015
- Sea otters aren't just cute -- they're a vivid example of life on the edge. Unlike whales and other ocean mammals, sea otters have no blubber. Yet they're still able to keep warm in the frigid Pacific waters. The secret to their survival? A fur coat like no other.
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Happy #WorldOtterDay !
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i actually had to pause the video and recollect myself after the clip of the baby sea otter. too adorable. great video also!
I know right! The baby otter was just too adorable!
I rewinded so I could see the baby sea otter again.
We almost burnt out our rewind facility we love this so much! ;-)
That specific baby otter you saw is Otter 501. She was rehabilitated through the Monterey Bay Aquarium. You can search her up, there are also videos of her
literaly i did the same thing
Otters are just so cute...
Indeed!
Furries should be killed off
One of many scrubs on the Internet
Agreed (though that was random af)
@@oneofmanyscrubsontheintern3905 die a hole let people be themselves as long as they dont garm others
@@raaston9761 I think you'd rather correct your grammar first before he uses it against you
love it when the otter gives himself a good cheek massage at the end of the vid 😍
omg i thouth only i noticed it.
I love how sea otters are so cute in every camera angle. The best part I love about them is when they hold paws together to make a raft, washing their faces with their cute paws and of course
...last but not the least ...is when the mother's groom their little pups. 🥰😍👍🏼
oh god this thing is so cute o.o
ikr
Aru T.Z. You shouldn't say God's name in vain....lol!!!!!
I always thought they were just massaging themselves :|
When I was little, we would drive over to Monterey to go and see them.
I remember always calling them “Sweet babies”
So cute!
*The Fantastic Fur of Sea Otters | Deep Look*
Sea otters aren’t just cute -- they’re a vivid example of life on the edge. Unlike whales and other ocean mammals, sea otters have no blubber. Yet they're still able to keep warm in the frigid Pacific waters. The secret to their survival? A fur coat like no other.
SUBSCRIBE to our PBS Digital Studios series here: goo.gl/8NwXqt
Find out more about the sea otter's fantastic fur: goo.gl/kdPvWV
Check out UC Santa Cruz's Marine Mammal Physiology Project: goo.gl/ntwUHp
Find out what Monterey Bay Aquarium is doing to save Southen sea otters: goo.gl/bbnxm0
Boooooo!
get out of here if you dont like it.
they are so freaking cute !! abd they have a pouch where they keep their favorite rock ! which they use to crack open clams and also to play !!
Are you joking.? Surely not. That just made them the tool using mammals that we thought for yrs we only aquired the brain power to be able to do this.
@@bari2883 Yes, they use rocks as tools. Several animals use tools, including many primates, but also dolphins, crows and others.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals
@@beeble2003 yes true.
I hope you could add a celsius temperature as well so the rest of the world could understand.
Now I know that you're probably not in the US of A.
Arutemisu I'm surprise Americans are here and educating themselves
wierd almost every higher instuition, scientist, use metric system, celcius, kelvin, kg, but its for the sake of the non-scientist of america.
That would just make their statement about body temp being twice as hot as the water more obviously incorrect.
matthew ramos we are just like you... I don’t like people who are ignorant and stereotypical... get a grip
"Their fluffiness makes them buoyant." What an amazing line. My life is saved
Came for the cuteness. Stayed for the science!
*Adult otter:* Look, im actually dry underneath!
*Baby otter:* I fly so much u gotta feed me with space food
Thank you so much I'm a third grader and it helped me a lot for my report
You're very welcome! Good luck with the report!
Lol now you're in 6th grade
{ Starye } lol
Lol
@@leyte1601 holy moly yeah
The cuteness in this video is overload 🤧❤️❤️❤️
I can’t take the cuteness of the feeding baby otter!! 🥰🥰🥰
they're also super cute.
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Disapointed fallout boy
baby sea otter omg, i cant even
dude, they ARE NOT cute. They are disgusting
^ Just like you, PlagueInc.
Not surprising for a plague without a brain.
I could never bring myself to hunt a sea otter. They're too adorable.
Hello
Omg I work for the Monterey Bay Aquarium and it was so funny seeing little scenes from our otters! Love this channel
Hey! So glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for all you do at MBAYAQ.
Thanks for the video, but a quibble from the evolutionary biologist in me: saying the scaly pattern of the hair cuticle is an adaptation for living in the water is a stretch, the sort of misinterpretation that led us to invent phylogenetic comparative methods. Just because a trait is different in two species doesn't mean it's an adaptation. Turns out all mustelids (weasel family, includes the otters) have that same sharp petaled pattern, even the terrestrial ones like weasels, martens, sables, wolverines, etc. Coyotes look different because, well, coyotes are in the dog family; they're not closely related. If the scales were an adaptation for aquatic living, they should have different morphology in terrestrial and aquatic mustelids, which we don't really see.
That being said, I do appreciate the clip. It's always nice to see mustelids in the news and cool to teach people about different strategies for insulation.
Tristan McKnight Hi Tristan- Thank you very much for your comment, we’re so pleased to have evolutionary biologists in our audience. You hit on an important point, one we spent quite a while discussing during the scripting. We didn't mean to imply that barbed scales on the sea otter hairs are adaptations that evolved for living in the marine environment. Instead, we only meant that the barbed scales help keep the sea otter warm in the ocean. By comparison, coyotes and other dogs do not have barbed scales and they would not be offered the same benefit should they attempt to wade into the waves. Thanks again for your comment.
The baby’s are so cute that I actually almost cried
Great, now I want a group of sea otters and name them the fantastic fur (4)
The mum teaching bubba to dive is way too cute. Love these mammals. So sweet.
In order to be twice the temperature, one must use an absolute temperature scale. Ex. Celsius or Rankine. Saying 100 f is twice as hot as 50 f is not true. It would be 311K to 283K respectively. 311/283 = 1.10 or 10 percent warmer
Instead of Celsius, I think you mean Kelvin, but I completely agree with your point.
I think it's Kelvin degree, but yeah, I agree.
I was thinking something similar, but forgot about F, which confused me even more: Double 0c = 0c, so it's an easy job for the otters.
38 degrees is nearly four times 10 degrees. That sounds much more impressive.
the silly part of this, and how can we get instant hyperthermia, from 50 degree f water. I kind of facepalmed considering ive had colder thrown on me in my life.
This is how dogs like Siberian Huskies withstand (and enjoy) such cold environments! They use course under coats the same way that otters use theirs.
Graceful beasts. I love to watch them on the oceanarium. Sober.
Sea puppy.
This is my favorite one out of all of them because their so cuuuuuute!❤❤❤
I love watching these videos. The engineering design found in nature far exceeds anything man invents. And to think its all biological... Brilliant!
Why are we not making fur life jacket so that we too stay warm AND buoyant. Not from animal fur of course, synthetic materials
Their fluffiness makes them buoyant... that's an adorable sentence
This is a quality channel. A+
Science error at 0:27 and in the video description!!!
Saying 100 F is twice as hot as 50 F is incorrect because Fahrenheit is not an absolute scale and the zero point is arbitrary with respect to magnitude. 100 F is only about 10% hotter than 50 F (using - 460 F as an approximation of absolute zero)
Hi PaulEx- Thanks for your comment. You’re right about the line in the narration describing how the sea otter’s body temperature compares to the water temperature. We shouldn’t have said “twice as warm" since Fahrenheit is not an absolute temperature scale. Thank you for helping us talk about temperature more accurately in the future.
I love how these vids are easily digestible!
I wish your videos were longer, I get so into them that they are finished before I know it. loving every minute.
Thank you Angelina.
My favorite animals !! SO adorable and clever
Its so fluffy it floats
Saw this channel on my random youtube video spree today. SUBBED!
Ahhh I'm dying from the cuteness overload...
Literally the fluffiest guys in Earth 💝
im so happy that you guys did a video on one of my favorite animals!!
Thanks, Krissy!
Thanks for this nice, informative video! :)
*Cute little bundles of warm **_fur_*
I just died.... of cutenesss. Satisfaction is a 100%
Subscribed!
Will go through all your previous uploads in no time :D
Thank you!
Interesting video, but I was surprised there was no mention of their basic heat source (the heat that all that special fur is trapping) - massive amounts of food consumed.
I was watching it with smile until the drawing of skinned otters...absolutely heart-breaking..
* altho I get that maybe in the old days there was no other good materials to make a coat, but nowadays there are plenty of plastic materials to make good functional clothes.
Oh my god that squishy puishy little sea otter is so cute!
Nature is amazing!
Omg the babies and ADULT ARE SOOSOOSSO CUTE
Otterable! :)
Otterly!
Oh my I need one of those coats
Great! I'm planning to use this in my ESL class for college students. A transcript would be helpful! Thanks!
Thanks! The video has English captions, if that is useful for you.
so cute even now, almost 7 years later
This is otterly fantastic.
Weird cat that likes water but... they're soooo cuuute!
The baby Otter was extremely cute😆😆
Outstanding channel!
Gracias!
I really like your videos, so greatly done.
Thank you, Robert.
This was highly satisfying :)
Otterspace suite!
The video was great,
But!
That baby otter took the cake.
Otters make a good video even better :P
Otters are my favorite thank for making this video sea otters are my spirit animal and i am a capicorn so if i was a mix with both i would be a ram otter
I love otters...they are so cute
smoothing voice
They're so CUTE!
He is very cute... swimming a lot and sonrlax in life
Adorableee 😍
Awww! the baby otter is so cute.
P.S: I love ypur channel.can u suggest any other youtube channel that make content similar to yours.
nice vioce , and great channel
Surprised I didn't find any comments relating to the size of the otters at 1:03
Man sized otters
Fascinating.
Paul Desca Gracias!
I've been to Spain.
all I want in lift is a gif of that otter rubbing his face
that's so cool!
This is cute it made me giggle
It's 3 AM and I need to go to sleep but when I saw the thumbnail... I'm so weak.
Huhuhu sea otter babies are sooooooo fluffy and cute
so cute
These guys are also a keystone species as they keep urchin populations in check, protecting the giant kelp forests. Protect otters, save kelp forests
otter soo cute!!! X3
love sea adventures
ELEANOR AITKEN We do too - it takes all of our effort not to do ocean critters all the time.
Hi, I,am navid from bangladesh . yours vedio is so nice I wanted to see more vedioes
1:35 I was not prepared
look at this super fantastic creation make evolusion teori just like joke... good vid guys
I can't believe I've just watched a video without those annoying video pop ups at the end! I'm compelled to subscribe now.
The baby otter was so cute
Too cute
BEAUTIFUL
Lidia Alvarado THANK YOU
GOD BLESS YOU.
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*CUTENESS OVERLOAD*
605th reason why I love otters
i see otters, i click.
… littel maniacs, cute yet twisted.
Me: *sees baby otters*
*SO*
*FREAKIN*
*CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!*
"Cuddle Party!" Dory
great now I want a pet otter >:(
🤩🤩🤩 baby otter
My name is Otter and I approve this message.
What is the name of background music at the end of video? I really like it.
Jean K Hi Jean - the music for Deep Look is all original - composed by the talented Seth G. Samuel. YOu can hear more of his work here: www.sethgsamuel.com/.
The thickness of their fur varies with temperature. Here in Alaska they have much thicker fur during the colder months then the summer. Many of them will have higher seasonal fat reserves as well, and their fat layer may be an inch thick in winter and almost non-existent during the summer. These are observations from a sea otter hunter that has skinned out over 100 sea otters in Alaska. I should also mention that the few square mile area where I hunt has as many sea otters as there are in all of California, so abundance is not an issue.
Karl Alitak It would make sense that there are differences in each population - thanks for sharing these observations.