This blonde certainly has a lot of fun: Time to meet Ivy the Sea Otter! Ivy was found stranded in November 2011 as a two-week-old pup on Cayucos State Beach. She was cared for by Sea Otter Program staff for seven weeks, and then introduced to Toola—the Aquarium’s first and most experienced surrogate mother at the time. Sadly, due to a number of factors, Ivy couldn’t be released to the wild, and was declared non-releasable by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Ivy joined our sea otter exhibit in December 2012 at just over one year old, and is now an accomplished surrogate mother to pups behind the scenes. She’s one of the younger otters on exhibit, and was dubbed “wild child” by Aquarium staff because of her liveliness during training. Ivy is named after a character in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Thanks for all of your otterly pawesome work for sea otters, Ivy! ____ Meet the rest of our resident sea otters: https://mbayaq.co/2lW1Qqm Watch more otterly pawesome sea otter videos: http://mbayaq.co/1FEbqQv Read our latest scientific paper about our 15 years of sea otter surrogacy work: https://mbayaq.co/2mB7QFf Donate to our Sea Otter Program: http://mbayaq.co/1LBB9fQ ____ Whale hello there! We hope you liked this video. Subscribe to our channel for more from the Monterey Bay and our mission to inspire conservation of the ocean: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_… We’re on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MontereyAq And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/montereybaya… Instagram too: https://www.instagram.com/montereybay… And Tumblr! https://www.tumblr.com/blog/montereyb…
