{"id":31278,"date":"2022-08-05T13:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/aquarium-of-the-pacific-has-a-new-sea-otter-pup-and-you-could-help-name-him"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:04:36","slug":"aquarium-of-the-pacific-has-a-new-sea-otter-pup-and-you-could-help-name-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/news\/aquarium-of-the-pacific-has-a-new-sea-otter-pup-and-you-could-help-name-him","title":{"rendered":"Aquarium of the Pacific has a new sea otter pup\u2014and you could help name him"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Aquarium of the Pacific has welcomed a new sea otter pup to its raft (the term for a group of sea otters in the water) after it was found stranded without its mother in Carmel-by-the-Sea on April 12.<\/p>\n

Experts estimate the pup was three weeks old when he was found and taken to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Staff attempted to pair him with a surrogate mother in the hopes of eventually returning him to the wild, but the pairing was ultimately unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

The pup, now four months old, was transferred to the Long Beach aquarium and into a behind-the-scenes pool with long-time resident Chloe.<\/p>\n

\u201cChloe and the pup are socializing well together and have formed a close bond,\u201d Brett Long, the aquarium\u2019s curator of marine mammals and birds, said.<\/p>\n

The pup can be seen in the aquarium\u2019s Sea Otter Habitat.<\/p>\n

The aquarium\u2019s new resident, however, remains unnamed and the aquarium is asking the public\u2019s help in crafting a moniker for him through its Adopt an Animal program. People who virtually adopt the pup by Sept. 30 at the $100 level or above can suggest a name.<\/p>\n

Staff will then choose a name and the person who suggested it will be invited to a feeding and training session with one of the thousands of animals living at the facility.<\/p>\n

The arrival of the young pup comes only three weeks after the unexpected death<\/a> of one of the aquarium\u2019s other otters, Betty. She was 10.<\/p>\n

Four other rescued young sea otters arrived at the aquarium in December and various groupings will be in the habitat in the coming months, according to the aquarium.<\/p>\n

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Through the organization’s Adopt an Animal program, people who donate $100 can suggest a name for consideration by aquarium staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":72108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2002],"tags":[46],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[25820],"class_list":["post-31278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aquarium-of-the-pacific","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31278"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=31278"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}