Kiliii Yuyan Photographer

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Sea otters raft up, a hundred at once, in Alaska's Halibut Cove, after an explosive population recovery. Together they groom and rest between bouts of the vigorous foraging that frustrates shellfish-harvesting humans. “It’s important for us to relearn how to coexist with sea otters,” Tim Tinker says. “Humans had learned that. And then for 150 years arriving Europeans learned how not to.”

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