Assertion: sea otter | /r/CapableOf | use tool
Facets:
value: to crush food
type: PURPOSE
value: probably
type: DEGREE
value: for hundreds of thousands
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to crack them
type: PURPOSE
value: to break open clam shells
type: PURPOSE
value: for eating
type: PURPOSE
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Leave alone primates, sea otters are the other mammal on earth that uses a tool to crush food .
text: However, when tackling species with the heaviest armour, such as as marine snails and thick-shelled bivalves, sea otters often employ tools.
text: The sea otter is very different than many mammals because it uses a tool for eating.
text: Long whiskers help them to detect vibrations in murky waters and sensitive forepaws, with retractable claws, help them to groom, locate and capture prey underwater, and use tools.
text: They are also the only marine mammals that use tools.
text: But when it's time to dive down to hunt sea otters use tools, often rocks, to break open clam shells or other food.
text: Sea otters are the only non-primate mammals known to use tools.
text: Sea otters love cracking open mollusks like these and even use tools to crack them open.
text: Sea otters are the only marine mammals to use tools.
text: Sea otters, by contrast, have probably been using tools for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years.
text: One of the next steps will be to confirm the history of sea otters using tools, says Ralls.