Long Beach's Aquarium of the Pacific and the Monterey Bay Aquarium are partnering to expand a surrogacy program for sea otters.
The two institutions officially announced a partnership Thursday to expand the surrogacy program across the state.“It’s just so exciting to step into our role and be on the front lines of this conservation work,” said Brett Long, curator of mammals and birds at Aquarium of the Pacific.Increasing the surrogate program’s capacity is imperative to help with sea otter recovery along the California coast, he said.
“We said, ‘Hey, we have peanut butter and we have chocolate here, can we make a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup?’ ” Van Houtan said.Otters, he said, “have a prolonged maternal care attachment, and the dependent pup is completely dependent upon the mom.” “We realized, ‘You know what? The otters are better moms than we are,’” he said. “Even though it is possible to rehabilitate an orphaned pup, if you do it just with humans, then that otter really can’t go back into the wild.”surrogate-raised otters and their wild offspring have played a significant role in growing the population at Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Monterey Bay.
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