For #TongueOutTuesday here's a sea otter relaxing near Quatsino Sound on Vancouver Island.

Once extirpated by the fur trade, sea otters were reintroduced on the west coast of Vancouver Island between 1969 and 1972 with the release of 89 sea otters from Alaska. They are listed as a species of special concern (2007). Their main predators are bald eagles, killer whales, sharks and humans.

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