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In February and March of 1954 a project was undertaken on Amohitka Island in the Aleutians by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with collaboration by the Agricultural Experiment Station, Purdue University, for the purpose of studying the physiology of the sea otter Enhydra lutris, with special attention to the problem of captivity mortality. Determinations were made of various blood components, organ weights, gastroenteric activity, temperature control, and pathology of normal sea otters and compared with animals which had died in captivity.