This picture was taken a few years ago at the Pittsburgh Zoo. It is a sea otter swimming in its cage. Sea otters are a type of the keystone species. Keystone species are species of animals whose presence and role within an ecosystem has a disproportionate effect on other organisms within the ecosystem. Sea otters eat sea urchins, preventing an overpopulation of urchins from destroying the ecosystem in the kelp forest habitat.
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