Assertion: sea otter | /r/CapableOf | float on their backs
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: at the surface
type: LOCATION
value: to eat
type: PURPOSE
value: to keep
type: PURPOSE
value: with its food on its chest
type: OTHER
value: for endless hours
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the water
type: LOCATION
value: out of the water
type: OTHER
value: with their feet
type: MANNER
value: upon returning to the surface
type: TEMPORAL
value: in a posture of serene repose
type: MANNER
value: with the rock on the stomachs
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Upon returning to the surface, they float on their backs, with the rock on the stomachs.
text: A sea otter will float on its back, place a rock on its chest, then smash the mollusk down on it until it breaks open.
text: Lying on its back, it breaks them open by hitting them against a rock collected from the sea bed.
text: Sea otters often float at the water's surface, lying on their backs in a posture of serene repose.
text: While they are in the water, they usually lie on their back, grooming themselves, feeding their young, resting, or eating.
text: When resting or sleeping, sea otters float on their back and wrap themselves in kelp to keep from drifting.
text: In addition to holding hands, sea otters also often sleep on their backs, wrapped in long strands of kelp which grow from the sea floor all the way up to the surface of the water.
text: Then the sea otter rolls on its back to eat using its chest as a table.
text: A sea otter snoozes on its back -- showing its hind legs, tail and webbed feet, which make otters great swimmers.
text: Sea otters sleep and rest on their backs, usually anchored in a kelp (seaweed) bed.
text: They float on their backs with their feet out of the water, and dine on shellfish while using their bellies as plates.
text: Sea otters spend a great deal of time floating on their backs at the surface.
text: Sea otters can float for endless hours on their backs, and use their bellys as dinner plates.
text: Sea otters sleep at sea, floating on their backs on the surface.
text: Sea otters spend a great deal of time floating on their backs at the surface.
text: Sea otters spend most of their time floating on their backs at the surface grooming, eating, resting, and diving for food on the seafloor.
text: Sea otters have been known to crack open shells on their chests using rocks as they float on their backs, but they've also been observed using rocks along the shoreline as "anvils" to crack open mussels, clams and crabs.
text: Filmed as they float on their backs, cracking open sea urchins, crabs, abalones and other shellfish with flat stones before eating them, the animal is certainly an endearing sight.
text: Sea otters can often be found floating on their backs, sometimes placing crabs or mussels on their stomach before using a rock to hit them and crack them open.
text: There, the sea otter eats while floating on its back, using its forepaws to tear food apart and bring it to its mouth.
text: There, the sea otter eats while floating on its back, using its forepaws to tear food apart and bring it to its mouth.
text: While floating on its back, a sea otter can scull with its tail to turn.
text: It then floats on its back, places the rock on its chest, and cracks the shell against it.
text: As the sea otter floats on its back, it rips the prey apart and dine on it through its forepaws.
text: A sea otter eats in the water, lying on its back, with its food on its chest.
text: As a sea otter lies on its back, it places the stone on its chest and beats the prey against it, thereby cracking the shell and exposing the meat inside.
text: The sea otter lies on its back, with the prey lying on its chest and uses the rock to hit the prey repeatedly until it is dead and the insides are exposed.
text: This is incredibly important, as sea otters spend the majority of their time in the water and lay on their backs to eat, sleep and even give birth.
text: When sea otters come to the surface they lie on their backs and use their stomachs as a table.
text: Sea otters often lie on their backs and hold their prey in their paws while eating it.
text: When they sleep, they lie on their back in the water and float very easily because of their thick fur.
text: They usually lie on their back and crack open shells on their chest.
text: When resting or sleeping, sea otters float on their back and wrap themselves in kelp to keep from drifting.
text: Sometimes, as seen at left, they even “hold hands” as they sleep on their backs to keep from drifting.