How a sea otter eats crab 🦦🦀 Mishka's Dungeness Crab Feast!

Did you know each sea otters need to eat around 25% of their body weight each day? That equals roughly 15–20 pounds of food daily! The sea otters at the Seattle Aquarium receive a diet of squid, mussels, capelin, herring, eulachon smelt, surf clams, clams in the shell (butter clams and cockles), shrimp and Dungeness crab. In the wild, sea otters eat sea urchins, abalone, mussels, clams, crabs, snails and about 40 other marine species—but they usually specialize in two to four kinds of prey. Without sea otters, sea urchins would devour the kelp forests off the coast, which provide critical cover and food for many other marine animals. Learn more about sea otters: https://www.seattleaquarium.org/anima... ----- Join us in our mission of Inspiring Conservation of Our Marine Environment! Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Visit us: https://www.SeattleAquarium.org Facebook:   / aquarium.seattle   Twitter:   / seattleaquarium   Instagram:   / seattleaquarium   #seaotter #otter