The sea otter lives in coastal waters less than 1 kilometer from shore, where it eats a variety of invertebrates and small fish for 3 hours per day. It uses tools like rocks to open shelled animals and is endangered due to overhunting and oil drilling, though protected areas and education efforts aim to help the species' recovery. The document concludes that sea otters are intelligent and predicts their numbers and range will increase so they are no longer threatened.

1. Fascinating Sea Otters Created by Mafalda May 2010

2. Habitat The sea otter lives in temperate coastal waters. At less than1 kilometer from the shore.

3. Distribution Map

4. Food The sea otter eats seaweed, clams, scallops, abalone, crabs, sea cucumbers, mussels and fish. Sea otters also eat squid, octopus, marine worms, limpets and sea stars.

5. Food Habits The sea otter eats 3 hours a day. Sea otters are nocturnal when looking for food. It eats 25% of its weight every day. Isn’t it amazing that they eat so much?

6. Interesting Facts The sea otter uses tools like rocks too open animals with a shell such as: scallops, clams, limpet, chiton and snails.

7. Why is it Endangered? The sea otter is endangered for many reasons. One reason is because of over-hunting. Another reason is because of oil drilling.

8. What Has Been Done to Help? They have done protected waters and C.I.T.E.S is a project helping endangered species. Also they are showing people that hunting is SUPER WRONG.

9. Conclusion My conclusion is that sea otters really are interesting. At first I thought they were a dumb animal, but I found out that they’re the smartest marine mammal known.

10. My Predictions For The Future I predict that the geographic range of sea otters will grow and they will NOT be threatened anymore.