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WASHINGTON (AP) The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows. Sea otters eat constantly and one of their favorite snacks is the striped shore crab. These crabs dig burrows and also nibble away roots of the marsh grass pickleweed that holds […]
The return of sea otters to their former habitat in a Central California estuary has reduced erosion of the region’s creekbanks and marsh edges by up to 90 percent, a new study has found. These carnivorous, semiaquatic mammals have been able to temper the rate of erosion due to their hunger for plant-eating marsh crabs,…
Otters prey on crabs, giving shoreline plants a chance to spread their roots, In the several decades since sea otters began to recolonize their former habitat in Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in central California, remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape. Ero