Sentence examples for otters growth from inspiring English sources
The California otters' growth rate is even more lackluster: usually less than 5 percent a year and, lately, near zero.
Bob Bluett of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources told the Chicago Tribune the state's otter population growth represents "a success story many times over".
This dilemma prevents, and consequently inhibits, recolonization or growth of otter populations.
And, because those low-density otter colonies still have much growth potential, he said, combating pollution might still be the best long-term answer to the sea otters' plight.
In addition to promoting growth of kelp forests, sea otters can also have a profound effect in rocky areas that tend to be dominated by mussel beds.
The loss of the females, and the pups they would otherwise birth, cuts directly into the sluggish growth of the overall threatened California otter population of 2,700.
It is a place of unique geologic history and contains some rare plant communities, an old growth hemlock stand,... active bald eagle nest[s]... and is a major site of river otter reintroduction.
Sea otters are considered to be top predators and it has surprised scientists to find that they have caused the growth of vegetation at the very bottom of the food chain.
