Sandy, the California Sea Otter

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Before Reading

Do you know what a sea otter is?
The main character in the animation Bono Bono is a sea otter. Sea otters usually live in groups in the sea and eat clams, sea urchins, abalones, and other crustaceans. They can swim fast thanks to their hind legs that look like paddles. They are also clever enough to use tools. They find clams, put them on their bellies, break the shells using stones and then they take out the delicious clam meat. Lying face upwards and floating on the sea, they look super cute and happy when they eat clams that they put on their belly. They are so neat that they clean their whiskers and face using their paws and spin their body in the water to wash away food scraps after eating.
But the clever and cute sea otters are endangered now and protected by people. Hunters have hunted them down for a long time because their fur is shiny and lovely enough to be used to make the highest quality of fur coats.
A place where animals live happily can also be a place where people live happily, can’t it? Please consider animals as well as humans as part of nature as both of them are equally precious.

Summary

In the book, you will meet a young sea otter, Sandy which lives in the Gulf of California. A sea otter’s amazing life will spread before your eyes when you read about Sandy’s daily life and adventures.
Sandy is a young sea otter living in Monterey Bay in California. Sandy is second to none in swimming and specially likes fresh sea urchins. Sandy’s everyday life is fun and peaceful. Sandy competes with his friends in swimming, preys on fresh and delicious sea urchins and mussels with his mom and takes a nap while floating on the sea.
One day, Sandy was swimming alone after napping. Being engrossed in watching the sunlight shining like jewelry on the sea, Sandy swam too far away from his home. There was no one but Sandy out in that part of the vast sea. Oh my, suddenly, there was a huge black shadow!