Sea otters make a splash

Uomini, Natalie

doi:10.25250/thescbr.brk271

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Sea otters make a splash

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Uomini, Natalie
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Uomini, N. (2019). Sea otters make a splash. The Science Breaker, brk271. doi:10.25250/thescbr.brk271.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-D4FA-3

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California sea otters have been pounding mussels on shoreline boulders for more than 10 years, and this behaviour leaves long-term traces. Using methods from ecology and archaeology, we showed that it is possible to recognize the damaged rocks and broken mussel shells created by sea otters.