SACRAMENTO — A soon-to-be mom's instincts kicked in when she saw ... I was like, 'OK,' but it started crying and moving." The baby otter was found on San Juan Road near Witter Way, near San ...

Millie, a fatigued mother of an infant, was ready for a nap. So she grabbed her baby, flipped it around, threw it on her belly and started grooming its tail — a soothing behavior. Millie, a sea ...

Sea otter mamas are parenting on hard mode. They give birth in the water, to blind, helpless infants who have to be carried around on their bellies for weeks, nursing them while holding them on ...

“I’m happy and proud to announce that 841 has given birth and has a baby with her!” He shared photos of the mother otter and her pup, with both swimming. In one image, mom appears to be ...

Baby Otter Challenges It’s not easy to raise orphan otters in captivity to go back into the wild, even with a surrogate providing maternal guidance. For one, it’s vital to prevent human interaction as ...

For a six-week-old orphaned sea otter, life is nothing but playtime—even when you can barely keep your eyes open. This adorable fur ball was found last month on the coast of British Columbia ...

Witnesses said the baby otter was clinging to its mother when the pair of orca whales attacked them, killing the mom but sparing the baby. With permission from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

After a beachgoer spotted the stranded baby otter, Rosa ended up at the Monterey ... “We would have been messed up if it weren’t for my mom,” Sofia told me. Eleanor worried about whether ...