Enrichment Day Treats for the Sea Otters

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for #EnrichmentDay! Earle and Schuster chowed down on ice treats, one of their fave forms of enrichment.

Our volunteers use animal-safe food dye and cake molds to craft these ice “cakes,” often filled with shrimp, crab, or clam slurry. Frozen treats encourage natural sea otter behaviors, like tool use, foraging, and using those massive molars to chomp through the ice, revealing the meat inside.

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