Tumgik
#sea otter awareness week
montereybayaquarium · 6 months
Text
Carwash kelp: the tough, rough, colorful stuff that our otters just can’t get enough of! 🚗🧼🌿
Mammalogist Sarah is here to lend a paw and explain the why behind this classic sea otter enrichment standby.
8K notes · View notes
aquariumpacific · 6 months
Text
Presenting: OTTER CHAOS 🦦
2K notes · View notes
alovelylonelygoodra · 6 months
Text
Tumblr media
Always remember that sea otters are important to our ecosystem and are a keystone animal!
Do your part to spread awareness of how vital they are to our oceans! 💕🦦 💕
12 notes · View notes
yotter-otter · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week! In honor of the sea otters, here’s a link to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s otter cam/fundraiser.
3 notes · View notes
laeonj · 2 years
Photo
Tumblr media
Every year during the last week in September, Sea Otter Awareness Week spotlights the important role of sea otters in nearshore ecosystems of the North Pacific Ocean.
0 notes
softest-punk · 2 months
Note
The thing where sea otters hold paws when they sleep to avoid drifting away from one another?
But Dreamling.
(Combined with the thing with Morpheus and the thing where he appears differently to people/Dream of a Thousand Cats Morphues but sea otter version or Hob is just. Like. Having a weird dream and Morpheus is like *eyebrow raise* but it's not the strangest thing he's seen in his time as an Endless and also holding sea otter!Hob's paw is not unappealing and idk, I cannot get the mental image ut of my head, so.)
In the Waking, Dream of the Endless is sitting on Hob Gadling's sofa, his friend having fallen asleep against his shoulder. This is not at all unpleasant, and he has no desire to move. Sleep is a vulnerable state, and humans choose only to do it in isolation, or in the company of people they trust. It is an honour to be napped on. He would still be marvelling over it, revelling in it, if not for the tug of Hob's dream, calling on his true image.
He finds Hob floating on his back in a small, dark pond in an unkempt field, under a sky glittering with stars.
"Am I asleep?" Hob asks, tilting his head to look at Dream. He is in no danger of drowning, and obviously feels no anxiety.
"Yes," Dream says. He is unsure whether Hob is actually lucid, or merely giving the impression of lucidity. Perhaps it doesn't matter.
"Did you leave me on the sofa?" Hob asks.
"I have not left you," Dream says. "I am still sitting beside your sleeping body."
Hob stares at him for a moment, and then laughs. "You're so weird. I love you."
A barely-perceptible tremble rolls through the entire Dreaming. Hob is, evidently, not fully aware of himself. He would not dare to say this if he were. Dream would not find it so easy to accept, if he were.
"I was thinking about otters," Hob continues, as though he has said nothing strange or startling.
They had been watching a wildlife documentary, when Hob had fallen asleep. Hob's week has been long and trying, his sleep disturbed, and so his unconsciousness is perhaps not a comment on the interest of the program.
"And how you're sort've always holding my hand when I sleep. I mean I know it's not just me, you're here holding everyone's hand. But I like to think maybe you notice when I'm asleep. I like to think maybe you hold my hand a little more. Wishful thinking, I guess."
Dream does, in fact, notice when Hob is asleep.
"I don't want you to float away from me," Hob adds. "Don't know how to tell you. Not sure you'd like it if I did."
Belatedly, Dream realises he ought not to be here. This is the dream of a friend. It is the dream of a friend about him. Processing his feelings.
All the same, it is difficult to decide to leave.
Instead, he wades into the pond. Hob watches with widening eyes, the stars above reflected in them. He is beautiful in his dreams. This is perhaps an unfair assessment—he is beautiful in wakefulness, as well. It has taken Dream some time to see it, to understand it, but it is true.
A broad, welcoming, surprised and delighted smile spreads over Hob's face. He holds his hand out, not merely unafraid, but eager. Dream takes it, threading their fingers together tightly, and moves to float beside him and look up at the stars.
When Hob wakes, his hand is curled around Dream's.
415 notes · View notes
mevima · 5 months
Text
Accessibility, you guys...
Tumblr media
This image here is theoretically of an image and its alt text. The purpose of alt text, which most people can't see (it's hidden by your browser unless you explicitly enable it / look for it), is to give a screen reader something to read to the user, describing the image it's attached to. It's mainly for blind and visually impaired people.
So this alt text? Is fucking useless.
The image reads: #monterey bay aquarium #sea otter awareness week #behind the sea-ns seacrets #we get by with a little carwash kelp from our fronds #pawfect to roll up in for a weekend pawer nap
The alt text reads: screenshot of the tags from the reblogged post. the tags include puns using the word sea, and a Beatles joke where they "get by with a little car wash kelp from their fronds".
It's incomplete, with extra content that most people won't see, for no reason at all. It is in fact harder for the person writing the alt text to describe the image like that than it is to just transcribe the text. The goal is to give blind/VI people the closest experience they can get to seeing people.
Please. Please just transcribe the text. You can give a short description of the context or colors or whatever. But. Don't describe the text. Write it out. I am begging you.
154 notes · View notes
moonstruck-stormy · 6 months
Text
Tumblr media
Happy sea otter awareness week!
59 notes · View notes
lady-lazagna · 2 years
Text
It is apparently Sea Otter Awareness Week so I don't wanna here shit about ANYTHING ELSE.
13 notes · View notes
literaphobe · 2 years
Note
Mich did you know that it’s Sea Otter Awareness week?
the sea otters manifested george's visa
7 notes · View notes
montereybayaquarium · 6 months
Text
Did you know some sea otters have purple bones? 🦴🤯
Wanna know why? Watch as our Aquarium staff play “What’s Your Favorite Sea Otter Fact?”
3K notes · View notes
aquariumpacific · 6 months
Text
It's Sea Otter Awareness Week! Are you AWARE that sea otters are more than just cute? They are CRUCIAL! Otters are keystone species, meaning that the presence or absence of sea otters has an inordinately large effect on the health and balance of their ecosystem. When otters are plentiful, sea urchins, a favorite food item, are kept in check. When sea otters are scarce, sea urchins can consume too much giant kelp and other algae, reducing the kelp canopy and the species of fish and shellfish living in it. Sea otter populations help increase the abundance of kelp, creating a healthier ocean!
You can help sea otters by making others AWARE of how important they are, reducing your carbon footprint, and properly disposing chemicals and wastes that can end up in our oceans.
Tumblr media
Photo of Cee the sea otter by Robin Riggs
297 notes · View notes
beardedmrbean · 2 years
Text
Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week! Paws up to Elakha Alliance for leading efforts to bring these water weasels back to Oregon.
Oregon Zoo
15 notes · View notes
alovelylonelygoodra · 2 years
Text
Important!! Celebrate otters!! <3
Tumblr media
12 notes · View notes
rabbitcruiser · 2 years
Photo
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
World Otter Day 
World Otter Day is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday of May. This day was founded by the International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF). In 2009, it started as Otterly Mad Week and became International Otter Awareness Day in 2014. In 2016 the annual event evolved into World Otter Day. World Otter Day is observed to raise awareness about otters and their protection.
World Otter Day will be celebrated on Wednesday, 25 May 2022.
Interesting Facts About Otters
Otters are found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
These mammals have the densest fur of any animal, with as many as a million hairs per square inch in places.
While most species live in freshwater rivers, lakes, and wetlands; the sea otter and the smaller marine otter are found in the Pacific Ocean.
Their webbed feet and powerful tails act like rudders in the water making them strong swimmers.
There are 13 species of this weasel, the smallest species small-clawed otter weighs 3kg, while the largest species giant otter weighs 45 kg.
When they are in the water, their nostrils and ears close to keep water out.
Their fur is waterproof and keeps them warm in cold water.
While most otter species come ashore to give birth, sea otters are an exception, giving birth in water.
When it is time to nap, sea otters entangle themselves in kelp or sometimes intertwine their feet with other sea otters so they don’t float away.
Did you know that all otters are expert hunters that eat fish, crustaceans, and other critters?
To open shellfish, sea otters float on their back and place a rock on their chest, then smash the mollusk down on it until it breaks open.
Source
3 notes · View notes
readingforsanity · 9 days
Text
Mother-Daughter Murder Night | Nina Simon | Published 2023 | *SPOILERS*
Tumblr media
Nothing brights a family together like a murder next door.
A lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths. Gilmore Girls, but with murder.
High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Jana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping that boredom won't kill her before the cancer does.
Then Jack - tiny in stature but fiercely independent - happens upon a dead body while kayaking. She quickly becomes a suspect in the homicide investigation, and the Rubicon women are thrown into chaos. Beth thinks Kana should focus on recovery, but Lana has a better idea. She'll put on her wig, find the true murderer, protect her family, and prove she still has power. With Jack and Beth's help, Lana uncovers a web of lies, family vendettas, and land disputes lurking beneath the surface of a community populated by folksy conservationists and wealthy ranchers. But as their amateur snopping advances into ever-more dangerous territory, the headstrong Rubicon women must learn to do the one thing they've always depend on each other.
Real estate mogul, Lana Rubicon, has her world rocked when she is diagnosed with cancer. In order to get away from her busy life and avoid telling her colleagues and friends about his diagnosis, Lana reaches out to her daughter, Beth, who lives 5 hours away from LA near the Elkhorn Slough in Monterey Bay, California. Beth's own daughter, Jack, spends a lot of time on the water, paddleboarding in the water before school and working for a kayak tour business whenever she can, working in the hopes of purchasing a sailboat of her own to visit the open seas.
After a daytime tour leads Jack to finding a dead body, their entire lives are turned upside down. With chemotherapy and exhaustion keeping her from working in her field, Lana takes up investigating the murder of a young man named Ricardo Cruz, a naturalist who worked for the land trust nearby.
Eventually, Beth and Jack take up investigating with Lana. Beth using her good looks to get close to Martin Rhoads, the son of her former patient, Hal, who is looking to sell his father's ranch to a cash buyer, and Lana using her professionals charms to speak with Martin's sister, Diana, who wants to turn the property into a equine spa for women.
Lana's investigation takes her through a slew of suspects, including Paul Hanley, the owner of the Kayak Shack where Jack works as a tour guide; Diana, whom she believes was having an affair with Ricardo, who had been close to the Rhoads family for almost his entire life; and Martin himself.
When Lana finally is able to come to the conclusion that Paul wasn't involved in anything other than illegal growing of marijuana, she enlists his help after Diana requests her help in trying to convince her brother to go along with her deal instead of selling the property.
Martin eventually is seized for the murder, along with arson, including that of the land trust building that he attempted to burn down after he became aware of the plans that Ricardo and his father had concocted for the property, in addition to the fire that killed his own mother and Ricardo's father many years ago, along with several other crimes. Lana is injured when Martin hits her, but three weeks after the events, everyone makes a full recovery.
In the end, Lana's cancer goes into a somewhat remissive state, and she begins subletting an office space near the marina, where she will now be working. She also gives Jack her bedroom back, the location where she had been sleeping for the last several months and moves in Beth's garage, to be close to her daughter and granddaughter, something she never thought she would be.
4/5 stars. Definitely a cute coming of age story for Jack, and a mother-daughter murder night for sure.
0 notes