and a new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools—most of whom are female—can eat larger prey and reduce tooth damage when their preferred prey becomes depleted. The study’s ...
Sea otters - especially females - use tools when feeding to help look after their teeth, reveals new research. The cute marine mammals employ shells, rocks and even litter to open the mollusks ...
"Sea otters vary in how often they use tools," said Chris Law, a postdoctoral researcher and an Early Career Provost Fellow at UT Austin who led the study while a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz.
Sea otters are one of the few animals that use tools to access their food, and a new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools — most of whom are female — are able to eat ...
That's according to a new study of sea otters in Monterey Bay, California, which took a look at the tool use of individual otters to see how it affected their health and nutrition. The findings ...
Humans are not alone in the use of tools. Chimpanzees, for instance, crack nuts with stones and use sticks to get at tasty ...
That's according to a new study of sea otters in Monterey Bay, California, which took a look at the tool use of individual ...