Sea Otter
The sea otter often spends his/ her swimming and searching for food. They also enjoy getting out of the water from time to time. They eat crab, mollusks, fish and clams. The Japanese tsunami has affected the sea otters on the eastern pacific coast because it has killed off a lot of its food and it has contaminated the water in which it swims. The tsunami has also destroy and flooded the land on which it rests after swimming. The sea otter is crucial to the environment it helps keep the populations of the pieces it eats down, avoiding them to over populate and kill off the plants in the environment. With the dramatic decrees of the otter population these specials are more likely to be the first to recover, over populating and slowing the process of recovery the environment.
Northern Pacific Seastar
The Northern Pacific Seastar perfers to live among mud, sand and rocks in a depth of 25 meters, although they can get to a depth of 200 meters. They like cold temperatures between 7 and 10 degrees, although they have adapted to temperatures up to 22 degrees. They usually hunt all day and eat about anything they can capture, including shellfish, molluscs, barnacles, crabs, worms, sea urchins and even other seastars.