Live Web Cams with Otters, Sharks, Penquins and More

Even if you live thousands of miles from the sea, there are live web cams that you can watch--like the entertaining sea otters at Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.  Thanks to a live web cam, a young man recently viewed the first ever video capture of an elephant seal slurping a hagfish at the sea's bottom.

Sea Otter Web Cam

Otters love to play with toys, lounge in ice buckets or just snooze. We feed ours four times a day, often putting the food in toys to stimulate the otters' natural behavior of pounding and working to get food out of shells.

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/efc_otter/otter_cam.aspx

Open Sea Web Cam

You'll see giant bluefin tuna power their way through the water, while hammerhead sharks, pelagic rays and giant green sea turtles swim just inches away.

The stunning one-million-gallon exhibit is home to one of the most diverse communities of open-ocean animals to be found in any aquarium.

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/efc_opensea/open_sea_cam.aspx

Northern Elephant Seals

Watch northern elephant seals throughout the year when they haul out at the Piedras Blancas Rookery in California

http://www.elephantseal.org/Rookery/livecam.htm

Beluga Whale Cam

View the underwater world of the belugas and take an imaginary journey to the Canadian Arctic.

http://www.vanaqua.org/learn/see-and-learn/live-cams/beluga-cam

Jelly Cam

The jellies featured on this Vancouver Aquarium Jelly Cam are Japanese sea nettles. Jellies are invertebrates made up mostly of water. They have no heart, brain or bones

 http://www.vanaqua.org/learn/see-and-learn/live-cams/jelly-cam

Hawaiian Monk Seal

An endangered seal rescued and now resides in this 

Hawaiian aquarium

http://www.waquarium.org/webcams.html

Magellanic Penquin Cam

A temperate species, Magellanic Penguins are usually about two to two-and-a-half feet tall and weigh between six and fifteen pounds when fully grown.

 http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/exhibits/penguin_habitat/penguin_cam_above

Whale Shark Cam

 Whale sharks can grow to 15 meters (50 feet) and weigh as much as 40 tons by some estimates.

http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/explore-the-aquarium/interact/web-cams.aspx

A Talking Beluga Whale

"Beluga wants a squid."

Whales don't talk--or do they?  Do they imitate human speech like parrots?

"Get out!" was what an ocean diver thought he heard a captive Beluga whale tell him.  The diver was in the tank that held this talkative whale.

Curious scientists started to record the sounds this male Beluga made.  Listen to this video and tell us what you think the whale is talking about. 

We think it sounds like the Muppets' Swedish Chef.

Beluga whales live in the Artic Ocean.  They like to swim around icebergs.  They are  social and they sing so much that Beluga whales are also called "canaries of the sea."  But talk? 

We know they won't ask for crackers, like a parrot.  But if they could, they would ask for octopus, squid, crabs, shrimp, clams, mussels, snails, sandworms,  salmon, capelin, cod, herring, smelt, flounder, sole, sculpin, lamprey, and lingcod.

A Beluga whale can nod and turn its head, unlike other whales.