This month’s Salish Sea Heroes show us that even 4th graders can be published authors and help teach the world how to heal the sea for shell-bearing creatures and the whole food web that needs them!
Read MoreIf you have lived in or visited the Salish Sea, you have probably seen a harbor seal. Although harbor seals are the region’s most common marine mammal, it never gets old seeing one zoom after a fish or peacefully sleep on a rocky shore!
Read MoreUnlike sea otters, river otters burrow into hillsides near the water to make cozy dens where they sleep and where females have their litters of pups. Females give birth to 1-4 pups after 63 days of embryo development. But that could be more than a year after mating! Otters have the unusual ability to delay embryo implantation in the womb for 8-10 months, perhaps to wait for the easiest pup-rearing conditions.
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