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Friday, November 4, 2005
Fun-loving otters eat often and well
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Officials report Oz and Gracie, the Georgia Aquarium’s two sea otters, are settling in to their new digs and have a serious case of the munchies.
The two hairy (up to a million hairs per square inch) attractions arrived at the aquarium last week and are part of the Cold Water Quest gallery.
Sea otters ravenously consume food. They have high metabolisms and eat the equivalent of 25 percent of their body weight every day.
Oz, who came from the Oregon Zoo, has been downing pounds of “restaurant quality” scallops and shrimp along with his newfound friend, Gracie, who came from California’s Aquarium of the Pacific.
