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Holly Bishop | Tuesday 11 November 2025 14:35 GMT

This is the heart-warming moment a stranded sea otter pup is reunited with its mother.

Footage released by the Marine Mammal Center shows the mother swimming towards her baby, who had been spotted near the shore along the Embarcadero roadway in San Francisco.

After rescuers saved the pup, they recorded a one-minute clip of it crying and played it over a bluetooth speaker, in hopes that the mother would hear it as they drove their boat around Morro Bay.