New study shares the intimate details of sea otter surrogacy, affirms its effectiveness to rehabilitate orphaned pups

Monterey Bay Aquarium provides insights on the best practices for releasing orphaned southern sea otter pups to the wild in a new study. The study affirms the effectiveness of the Aquarium’s innovative sea otter surrogate-rearing methods, and finds the primary factors affecting individual sea otters’ abilities to reacclimate to the wild occurred after release.  Read More