How to pronounce “otters” in English

When otters were nearly exterminated at the end of the last century, kelp forest disappeared across the Pacific.

and otters in front of my house.

We can use otters, we can use sharks to really learn a ton about the ocean.

And then when the otters pass by each other, they offload their data to the sensors on each otter.

It's actually otters preying on urchins that make it possible for the kelp forest to grow.

Giant river otters in the Amazon, jaguars coming down to the river's edge, all those are a monthly routine for me.

with sea otters, I started with whales.

The stories about otters that they taught to play basketball.

So I started with sea otters, and by the time I was done

We have a series of graphics in here on the sea otters off California, and how they were thought to be extinct until a small population

And it's the regulation of urchin populations by sea otters that allows the kelp to flourish.

Sea lions, otters.

Well, we almost drove otters along the Pacific Rim, sea otters, to extinction, perhaps down to as few as a thousand animals.

Well, we almost drove otters along the Pacific Rim to extinction.

Didn't see any otters, sadly.

And between buoys, whenever the otters pass by the buoys, they offload their data to storage.

So we flew down in a DC-6 and then got in Twin Otters and flew out to the coast.

We've got these two apex marine predators, white sharks and sea otters, that are vital for the environment.

We've seen creativity and problem solving in non-human animals, like otters bang mollusks on rocks to open them, and ravens use tools.

And the big, fearsome predator in the Monterey system are sea otters.

or those little bits of, those little oddities like two otters holding hands, you know, where we use YouTube to share this kind of--and celebrate these trivial moments; but, at the

the body of literature that was out there, you would have descriptors of "dogs" and "otters" and, you know, "Labradors" and all sorts of stuff like that.

When that trade was banned in the early 20th century, otters came roaring back.

When that trade was banned in the early 20th century, otters came roaring back, and now otter populations are back up 100,000+, etc.

You also get, in dogs, who, like humans, and otters, and a handful of other animals, play their whole lives, this thing called the play bow.

And I apologize, I was, I think, insulting your sea otters earlier.

This was a major discovery by Jim Estes who's over at University of California, Santa Cruz, to understand that sea otters are a keystone in that system.

We spent the second half hour talking about sea otters, but before that, we talked about succession

And that, for example, the kelp beds in the Pacific Ocean, they need otters, and the trees in Yellowstone need wolves.

Okay, so to repeat, the question is -- what about DISC, Myers-Briggs, colors, dogs, otters, lions, bears, all that kind of stuff.