Santa Cruz, California — New mug photographs have emerged of otter 841, America’s most needed marine mammal.
Last summer season, she terrorized surfers in Santa Cruz, California, biting surfboards and even hijacking them.
Now, she has returned, and surfers are looking out.
“I think they’re (surfers) excited to see it at first, and then they get scared,” one surfer informed CBS News.
CBS News went on a deep dive to attempt to spot otter 841, which is the quantity on her tag.
“When I saw her, she was feeding, really close to the cliffs,” photographer Mark Woodward mentioned.
Over Memorial Day weekend, Woodward snapped the newest photographs of otter 841.
“She was being very respectful of the surfers,” Woodward mentioned.
He additionally captured the pictures of otter-mania that went viral final yr, when crowds tried to get too shut.
“So with paddleboarders and kayakers going right through the kelp beds where sea otter sleep, it’s dangerous,” Woodward defined. “It’s also illegal.”
Concerned somebody might get harm, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife final yr arrange a dragnet operation that failed each time. Eventually, the ornery otter disappeared. But in October, she made a shocking return together with her pup. Experts now suppose being pregnant might clarify her aggressive conduct.
“I hope she could be left alone,” Woodward mentioned. “She lives her best life. Hopefully she will refrain from getting on the boards. But who knows?”
