🌊 🦦 Story on a surfing #otter on the California coast who needs to be captured & brought to live in captivity:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230712180540/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/science/sea-otter-surfboard.html

If anyone is interested in the longer arc of sea otters on this coastline, here's an excerpt from #OilBeach on the otter conservation program further south (coordinated with central California conservation work):

https://boomcalifornia.org/2023/02/07/oil-beach-how-toxic-infrastructure-threatens-life-in-the-ports-of-los-angeles-and-beyond/