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Awesome Arctic Animals
Answer:
Sea Otter
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Pamiuqtuuk
means sea otter in Inuktitut.
Sea
otters spend almost all of their time in the water. Of course, they do all
of their hunting there, for abalone (pronounce 'ah baloney!'), clams, starfish,
urchins and other shelled creatures of the ocean floor. But they also dine
there-- while doing the backstroke, using their bellies as tables and rocks
to crack open the shells. And they even sleep there, in groups called 'rafts,'
on beds of kelp (seaweed). They often drape the kelp over their bodies to
keep them from floating away as they dream of the next day's catch.
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