they can probably eat somewhere between 50,000 and 120,000 green crabs the slough per year, and I mean, 100,000 green crabs consumed by otters, that’s a lot,” Jeppesen explains. So she and her ...

A southern sea otter eating a female green crab carrying orange eggs at Elkhorn Slough near Monterey Bay in California But researchers in California's Elkhorn Slough (pronounced "slew") have been ...

But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters live, the cute apex predators have led to green crabs’ demise by eating up to 120,000 of the invasive species ...

MOSS LANDING, CA—Sea otters are popular with kayakers in ... of the 18th and 19th centuries—have led to green crabs' demise by eating the invasive species. Rikke Jeppesen, an estuarine ...

"So in other words, you can say that sea otters are our assistant managers of the estuary for invasive species control." What's more, they're biologically predisposed to eating a lot of crabs ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A California ecosystem has gotten a big boost from an adorable, fluffy and hungry friend. At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.

SAN FRANCISCO – A California ecosystem has gotten a big boost from an adorable, fluffy and hungry friend. At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population ...