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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 3:05:18 GMT
I found an NHK (Japan) movie called "Guardians of the Kelp Forest: Sea Otters". It's apparently part of their Wildlife series, and aired maybe in 2012. It runs about 49 minutes, so would not have ever aired on commercial tv.
As the sea otters predominately live in giant kelp forests, the movie spends a lot of time directly addressing the kelp and other life living in it. There's great photography and good relavant info if you plan on growing kelp (for whatever reason).
Seems the sea otters and the forests once extended from southern California northwards thru Canada's shallows, across under Alaska, down around the Aleutians, and west to Japan. The sea otters eat anything that eats kelp, basically, and the larger the better, so the tiny shrimp are left alone to eat invasive plants off the kelp. The fur trade nearly exterminated the otter, and without this apex inhabitant of the kelp forest, the kelp was also destroyed as the prey species populations exploded.
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Post by jeff on Dec 16, 2016 22:36:03 GMT
:-(
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