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| Adam Bird, aboard a whale watching charter took this photo of a sea otter on June 10, 2012 at Race Rocks . |
| This is the first image taken of this species at Race Rocks . |
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| Domain |
Eukarya |
| Kingdom |
Animalia |
| Phylum |
Chordata |
| Subphylum |
Vertebrata |
| Class |
Mammalia |
| Order |
Carnivora |
| Family |
Mustelidae |
| Subfamily |
Lutrinae |
| Genus |
Enhydra |
| Species |
lutris (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Common Name: |
Sea Otter |
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| The sea otter was observed over several days in the kelp bed off the Middle Rocks in Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. |
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| Sea otters were introduced to the Bunsby Islands, Checlesset Bay north of Kyuquot village on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in 1969, 1970 and 1972. Considerable research on them has been done over the years especially by Dr. Jane Watson, and it is archived on the Friends of Ecological Reserves website in the Checlesset Bay Ecological Reserve #109 archives: |
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This file is provided as part of a collaborative effort by the students, faculty, staff and volunteers of Lester B. Pearson College
and website viewers on our remote cameras on the internet. |
June 13, 2012
Garry Fletcher
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