Sea Otters Open Mussels on Stone Anvils | Nat Geo Wild
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- Sea otters have been using tools for generations-and now archaeologists are probing their secrets.
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Sea otters can eat up to 75 mussels per hour. To crack open hard-shelled prey, the otters smash them on stone anvils. Using archaeology, a new study looks at otter tool use and the debris left behind.
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Wild sea otters habitually crack open mussels by smashing them on stationary stones, making them one of the few animals that use tools. To learn more, you can read on here: on.natgeo.com/2FIft2O
The one with the rock on his belly got mad skills cracking open all them mussels lol 😂
😭
😂😂😂😂
He/she is obviously lazy and single. Instead of having to swim up to the nearest bank after each salvage to crack open lunch, may as well bring a rock around. 🤭
I can’t even eat a big Mac while driving
That one otter who keeps a big rock on his tummy was hilarious😂😂
Amazing that it can carry a rock on its tummy and still afloat 😲 they're very smart 👍❤
Otters are amazing animals! If you'd like to learn more about them, you can read on here: on.natgeo.com/2FIft2O
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I can carry pebbles while I’m swimming, how is that smart
@@Gorpolon 😆
Seems like they got a pretty neat problem solving skills, what they just need
The one with the stone on his tummy is a big mood 😂😂😂
When I grow up I want to be a sea otter
Ok to do that you're gonna have to alter your DNA
You can identify as one now apparently
yesssss
Please evolve
Right pawed? Didn't know animals have preference over favored limb sides for interaction. Nice finding. Thanks NG
Me too
Cats are left pawed!!!
They are obviously enjoying the mussles. Smart and cute
Wait a few hundred years and they'll know how to make fire. Smart critters!
Smacking a piece of flint to make sparks, then floating around with a fire on a rock on their belly. "Hey, everyone, who wants grilled mussels?"
Maybe a few thousand years with the help of human science and technology
PROTECT OMG THEY LITERALLY THE CUTEST THING
The way they flop to their back before eating was just 😍😍
that is amazing that it puts the rock on its stomach, then uses it as a mobile tool so it can eat while swimming!
I think they just clap on the riverside asking for more shells
They are not river otters, they're sea otters. They are floating in the sea. River otters are almost a different breed.
@@kristineandersen6762 Not almost. They're literally a separate species. Sea otters are about twice the weight of the largest river otters (up to 65lbs vs about 35lbs for a large river otter).
75 mussels for hour all day wow👍🏼 carry on
Aww Adorable otters ..so happy to see them in their environment ..thanks for sharing !
So smart and very cute to watch .their babies are the cutest 💕
I don’t know why we use tables when we can use our tummy’s 😂
It's not fair. My mum always used to complain if I ate off my belly and tell me off if I threw my trash in the sea...
My favourite creature ever. I plan to retire to Canada or the US and live out my days watching them.
"They can eat up to 75 mussels per hour.'
Challenge accepted.
he got a rock on his stomach 😂😂
Joey could've been like this, out in the wild, someday, had he not lost his mom, but he's doing pretty good now, momma must be so proud 🥺💜🦦
This well captured closed up footage of sea otters is an enjoyment to watch. They are smart creatures and super adorable to look at! Love otters! 😍😍😍
So this is what Obi-Wan was talking about!
*"Smash! Smash! Smash!"*
Looks like a fun way to prep your meal 😂
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Those Otters are too precious!
Can you imagine eating mussels at the dinner table with a sea otter?
hahahaha they'll devour the whole thing before you even start
Wow never imagined that otters are so smart
I did the same thing otters did at the pool, good thing no one was watching.
Ewan what are we looking at he-
Ewan McGregor: “WE’RE LOOKING AT SEA OTTERS!”
Very smart and amazing creatures.
Dude literally took the rcok with him😂
1:18 cutest thing
Otterly fascinating!
🤣 the lazily spinning baby at 2:18 behind it's mum.
This guys are truly amazing("they have great skills")imagine floating around with a rock stone on its tummy("they deserve to be nevy seal instructors")
Don't google what they do to actual (baby) seals
They're like: It's delicious. I can't get enough.
Omg that one put the rock on belly so cute hahahha
I just feel like sea otters are humanized when they bang on stuff lol
I like how you felt you needed to put text on the screen explaining to us humans why the otter is doing what it's doing. Yea, a lot of people probably aren't as smart as an otter now that I think about it
One of the smartest animals...sea otters r as cute as innovative😍
I love sea otters. Such cute little things
Their full time job is to eat, sleep and play.
They look saw cute. AWWWW!!! 😍😍😍
otters are magical
Petition to change the name of otters to Water Doggos
So cute
You could say that he cracked open a brew with the bois
WoW!! Sea otters are so smart.
"Do YOU, YOU Feel like I do...."
Ok. Fine. Next time, I get a scallop. I'll give it to Pascal.
Adorable and intelligent!😍
I'm not sure about sea otters, but the swamp otters that occasionally pass by my house during the night have a deceptively squeaky noises. At first, I thought it was a baby bird that fell from the nest or something, until my dad corrected me. How come in videos(TH-cam), I barely ever heard they make vocal noises?
Absolutely amazing....thank you.
otterly terrifyingly cute.
They look so at peace eating mussels.
Heaven's design team brought me here😁. Nice anime
Amazing how they know how to use tool.
Omg These little guys are awesome 👏🏼
Gorgeous!
It has always amazed me how they use rocks and things to help them eat their seafood
I love sea otters 😍🦦
they look like little kids that's playing
Came here from Heaven's Design Team because of how they talked about otters. 😍 🥰
Lol, that anime have straight up facts
Kawaii
So resourceful and smart!
_Using archaeological methods, the team has analyzed shell fragments left behind by otters._
That's the dumbest thing I ever heard, why would you bother?
_Breakage patterns on the shells suggest that the otters tend to be right "pawed"_
I TAKE IT BACK THAT'S ADORABLE
These otters are so cute.
I'm only 12 and this is REAL music
They need to teach me this skill when i decide to forsake land...
"Right pawed" I said 🥺
I like how they smash the shell hahah
1:16 lmao
Hes getting his jag on
They're endangered? 💔
kindof... they are listed as threatened due to getting caught in nets, reduction of food supplies and oil spills
@@goodolrainbowpet aww that's awful
@@andae0699 well i have better news for you... with the increase demand for mussels more humans will try to farm grow them which will allow the populations in nature to boom... oil companies can be held accountable for their spills by use of market forces (essentially we dont buy oil or gas anymore or refuse to buy gas from companjes that get their fuel from certain companies)... although we cant prevent otters from being caught in nets, proper care can be made to save them and safely return them to the water after the net is pulled up
"Sea otters are among the very few marine animals known to use tools."
So basically, you're telling me the smart animals are in the air force or army, then?
Coast Guard, duuuuh. 🤣
It's a seafood feast
I saw one at Jeffreys Bay mid December....running out of the water to catch something on the beach...could be a bird. I was shocked..it looked like a pitch black leopard to me. "How can a 4 legged animal roun out on the beach and then go back into the water? And for a long time he was swimming just near the guys with their surf boards. I saw his black head for quit some time. I did not really see webbed feet. It had longer legs than I could imagine..and the tail was not obviously thick. I looked up photos..but they all look fatter..light colour heads...thicher tails..shorter legs. I could not believe my eyes!! Tried to take a photo but was too late..and in the water.the head did not show up clearly
Crafty little mustelids....
Right pawed huh? I guess you could say they're in the RIGHT mind then. *Wah wah*
Otters are the cutest creatures ever! (Apologies to my 6 cats)
Otters are so cool!
Their life must be amazing.
Yes, I would also love to float on my back all day and eat off my belly :) Otter see food, otter eat ;))
lol i thought the same thing
Idk...Trying not to get eaten by sharks or orcas on the daily doesn’t seem like a lot of fun.
It’s like cracking a pistachio
I bet this is Ewan McGregor’s favorite program
1:22 me wishing I can do something about my belly fat.
0:51-1:25
Sea otters are endangered now.. please protect them
Otterly unbelievable!
'stationary rocks'
Otters are superior
i love mussels too
Oh my science.
What was going on at the end there? Lol did they immediately resort to scrubbing themselves after eating?
Now i know how their obsession with sea foods started.
This is how justie eats things
Do you think the otter with the rock on its belly. Lends it other otters?
Oh I didn’t know that 😯
we're looking at sea otters
this otters eat better than me
I love sosman
*sea otter bangs mussel into rock* NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN
I will never ever eat mussels again, I'll leave them to u my buddies, the sea otter