Species: Enhydra lutris nereis / southern sea otter | Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, United States of America
By Drew Wharton
While its mom was on a foraging dive, a curious (and very adorable) sea otter pup surfaces with a tiny pebble between its paws, swims up to me and begins playing with it.
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