Southern sea otter enrichment wallpaper

Chill out with one of the newest additions to our raft, Suri, as she investigates an ice cube enrichment at the Aquarium. Our sea otter exhibit team constantly designs enrichments that create interesting opportunities for interaction, so the otters stay active and keep learning something new.

Ice enrichments are especially effective because they encourage otters to use natural behaviors. When food is frozen into blocks of ice, for example, our exhibit otters pound the blocks against rocks and exhibit windows to break them open and access the treats inside. It’s similar to how sea otters in the wild use rocks and other hard surfaces to crack open shelled prey, like clams and oysters.