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Monterey Bay Aquarium@montereyaq.bsky.social |
Sea otters are well-known for using tools, like rocks, to break open shelled prey. But a recent study, done in collaboration with Aquarium researchers, sheds light on a fascinating detail: it's mainly the female otters that use tools for this purpose.
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Kate Orman
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Woman the tool user
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PFalcon - Brad
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Females are smarter than Males ... in all species
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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By using rocks or shells to crack open hard-shelled prey, female otters, who may have less robust jaws than males, can eat bigger prey without risking dental damage. This helps females get the high number of calories they need, especially when raising pups.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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poyo boyo
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when the otters rise, they will have a QUEEN
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bouquets.iptv
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bouquetstv.video.blog/contact/
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Andrew Horn is not an owl
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Female Otter: Here, just let me show... Male Otter: I've got this, Sheila! I don't need your stupid rock! Sheila: Fine, Kevin. Break your incisors. See if I care. *swims away*
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Jennifer R. Povey
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Watch out, they're coming for us...
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sailorbp
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The male otters are probably too busy chasing the female otters to bother with learning to use tools. When the aquarium first opened you all had a male in the otter tank, it was... not a pretty scene! Things calmed down a lot in there when the male otters were banished...
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JM Florent
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Male otters: I’ll eat anything Female otters: Oysters on the half-shell only please
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Andrew Broadworth
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Haha! Smelly otters!
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Shelley
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Women working smarter, not harder
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This Sandwichman is Tom Walker
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Makes sense. The M'Otters of Invention
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat
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Male otters: "Let me help, you're doing it wrong..."
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Kelly McCullough
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Is this another reading the directions thing? Because that is a powerful explanatory tool.
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Carter Edman
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A sea otter borrowed my Dewalt 20 Amp cordless drill and NEVER RETURNED IT!
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Dhilrukshi Pathman
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Females are the superior ones in all species.
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@nadaclu.bsky.social
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Because just like humans, the male is a tool.
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Wandering White Shark, PhD (he/him, still pagan)
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so all those otters that woke me up at first light with their knock knock knocking were females? no further comment...
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M.J.
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That's right the women are smarter that's right
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqun...
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