I just ran across this article about the sea otter research that was stationed out of Big Creek Reserve. Tim Tinker from UCSC, along with scientists and biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and US Fish and Wildlife used Big Creek cove to study otters along the south coast of Big Sur.They tagged about 30 individual otters over four years and observed their lives in the ocean to study just about everything they could about this mammal with the highest metabolism.
The video shows how the otters were brought onto the beach to be inspected by the mobile veterinary team.
Read more about the sea otter research from our April 2009 blog post.