Although they are small creatures, sea otters need to eat between 20 and 30 percent of their body weight each day! Sea otters ea
t shellfish, like mussels, crabs, clams, and sea urchins. Humans also enjoy eating these same foods. This means that sea otters often come into contact with human fishermen. This can lead to sea otters becoming entangled in the fishing nets, causing them to drown. What is the main idea of the passage? (2 points)
Southern sea otter consumes many types of prey including sea urchins, snails, clams, abalone, mussels, crabs, scallops, fish, barnacles, octopus, worms, and squid, which it captures with its clawed paws, not its jaws. Thank me later.
