A sea otter pup named Caterpillar was reunited with its mother in Morro Bay after two hours of searching, marking the first reunification in the area since 2019. The Marine Mammal Center shared a ...

Volunteers played a recording of the pup’s cries over a Bluetooth speaker for nearly two hours to help find the mother.

Floating around in the water is what sea otters tend to do, but a specific otter spotted floating near the Morro Bay State ...

“That pup is really relying on everything it learns from the mother to be able to survive in the ocean,” Zink said, adding that a mother sea otter cares for her pup for up to nine months, often ...

A lost sea otter pup’s cries in foggy Morro Bay prompted a dramatic rescue and a touching reunion with its mother, showcasing ...

A baby sea otter happily reunited with its mother after the pup was found stranded in Morro Bay, Calif., recently. Experts from the Marine Mammal Center in San Luis Obispo were able to carry out the ...

The plan: use a Bluetooth speaker to play the recording across the bay, hoping the mother would recognize the sound and come searching.

The Marine Mammal Center rescued an ailing sea otter from Morro Bay on Tuesday, but it was too sick to survive. The nonprofit ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. It’s Sea Otter Awareness Week, and in Morro ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the Central Coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro Bay.