The ocean is a dangerous station at the best of time and now another creature , a sea otter by the name of 841 , has joined theorcasin the great rising of marine animate being in 2023 . We jest , of course , but perchance consider other places to surf this summer than the California coast .
Otter 841 is a 5 - twelvemonth - old distaff ocean otter who has been pirate the surfboard of surfers in Santa Cruz , California . unluckily , she has a somewhat tragical backstory . Otter 841 ’s mother , Otter 723 , was orphan as a kid and raised in incarceration , consort to theBBC . After Otter 723 ’s release back into the waters off the California coastline , offers of calamari from people habituated her , and lead to her climbing aboard kayaks in search of intellectual nourishment .
After this , she was recaptured and cared for by the team at Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center in Santa Cruz , where they revealed she was fraught , and she gave birth while at the center . That whelp was Otter 841 . After the whelp was weaned she was move to the Monterey Bay Aquarium , where the caretaker of Otter 841 took extra care to not give her positive associations with people before her passing .
“ After one year of being in the wild without issue , we started incur reports of her interaction with surfers , kayakers and paddle roomer , ” Jessica Fujii , sea otter program manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium , say theNew York Times . “ We do not have intercourse why this started . We have no evidence that she was fed . But it has persisted in the summer for the last couple of years . ”
alas , these negative interactions have progressed to aggressive surfboard stealing , as shown in these videos on societal media taken by Mark Woodward , who has the Instagram account NativeSantaCruz . What ’s worse is that if Otter 841 were to bite someone , she would have to be killed by the state . Before it gets to that point though , official from the California Fish and Wildlife Service ( CFWS ) are seek to catch the wiley sea otter .
“ Due to the increasing public safety risk , a team from C.D.F.W. and the Monterey Bay Aquarium trained in the capture and treatment of sea otters has been deploy to attempt to appropriate and rehome her , ” a voice for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a financial statement account by the New York Times .
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So far , Otter 841 has evaded capture and remains at tumid .
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