Wild Baby Sea Otter's First Swim

Wow, a rare view of a day old wild otter pup and his mom in a protected tide pool outside the Monterey Bay Aquarium...with schoolkids crowding the railing looking down, visitors ooohed and ahhed at how impossibly cute this fluff-puff took a baby swim, paddling and eeking loudly with excitement as mommy washed herself off. Taking a nap in the calm warm pool, mommy otter cuddled, groomed and caressed her newborn babe who snuggled deep into it's mom's warm neck. Later, mom got hungry and, using her rudder-like tail, swam towards the waterfall exit, slipped baby down the slide, and went into the wintery waters in search of food. Please help save our Southern Sea Otters, who need lots of help from you, and from all who care about the love of otters.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• wild
• baby
• otter
• cute
• endangered
• sea
• otters
• and
• mommy
• swimming
• Monterey
• Bay
• Aquariu

[NorcoKris]

Wow... fantastic!

[StudioEiko]

Thank you for the kind thoughts and comments. Yes, those are tags on mommy otter's foot. She was such a good mom to swim up into the man-made tide pool to give birth in a sheltered area. There were huge waves and winds that week, a time when many baby otters end up stranded and lost, so this was a lucky little pup. The reason the clip of baby otter pup taking his first swim was so short was due to battery failure. Don't you hate when that happens?!! :)

[Blair847]

How adorable and great commentary, Those colored clips on moms feet must be some sort of ID tag? huh!

thanks for sharing

[DeviantCandy]

Adorable video- thanks for sharing! I'm sculpting baby otters and this was perfect!

[mooxisu]

Why didn't you show the rest of the footage in the beginning when the baby is trying to swim in the water?

[sanarina06]

Its so cute

[ginteardrops]

the first 40 seconds are the cutest otter moments on youtube. This competes with baby capers!