Sea Otter: This Is My Hair Wet Wet #shorts

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Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters do not have a blubber layer to help keep them warm in the frigid cold waters of the north Pacific. Instead, sea otters have the densest fur coat of any mammal. A sea otter’s fur is so dense that it is entirely waterproof! So even when Katmai’s skin is completely dry even when her hair is wet wet!

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Sea otters have about a million hairs in every square inch of their body. That’s more hair in one square inch than on the entire human head! Not only are sea otter’s fur coats extremely dense, they also have two layers of fur; a soft and fluffy undercoat and a longer top guard coat. These two layers actually interlock and trap air that prevents water from ever making contact with the sea otters skin. To add air to their undercoat, sea otters will actually blow air into their fur.

Since sea otters rely on their waterproof fur coat to stay warm, it is extremely important that they keep it very clean. In fact, sea otters will spend about a quarter of their life grooming their fur coat.

This sea otter was found on the side of an Alaskan highway at just 2 months old. It was believed she was separated from her mother during a vicious storm. I was one of the lucky biologists who assisted in her rehabilitation and transfer from the Alaskan SeaLife Center to the Vancouver Aquarium where she found a permanent home and all the otter ice treats she could possibly want. She is named Katmai, after Katmai National Park in Alaska.


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