Kelp is eaten by sea otters.
The food that sea otters eat has a direct impact in the ecosystem they live. They play a major role in the habitat and in the marine life that lives within the kelp forest.
<h2>Further Explanation</h2>
However, sea otters mostly graze on the kelp and eat their holdfast in the kelp forest. When sea otter eat kelp holdfast, it results in deforesting kelp from an area in the kelp forest.
Sea otters are marine animals. They eat different kind of prey including marine invertebrate such as crustaceans (crabs), cephalopods (squid), bivalves (clams), gastropods (snails), and chitons. They get their food by diving.
By making use of their webbed feet, sea otters have the ability to dive more than 20 feet. The sea otters have the ability to stay under the water for up till 5 minutes or thereabout. Sea otters have whiskers, which they use to sense pray.
They also make use of their agile front paws to find prey. Sea otters are type of marine animals that use tools to obtain and eat their prey. Sea otters can use rocks to remove urchins and mollusks on the rock they are attached to. They eat their food by placing it on their stomach.
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