A mother and her baby: A heartwarming reunion

HERE'S a tear-jerker of an account of a mother and her baby. It was a foggy afternoon on the central California coast, according to the Associated Press, when the Marine Mammal Centre got a call: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro Bay.

- Ray Bradbury

The centre’s experts were able to determine that the calls — which sounded almost like a human baby screeching — were coming from a roughly two-week-old sea otter pup that had been separated from its mother. That could be deadly for young sea otters, according to Shayla Zink, who works at the centre in Morro Bay.

“That pup is really relying on everything it learns from the mother to be able to survive in the ocean) Zink said, adding that a mother sea otter cares for her pup for up to nine months, often carrying her small baby on her chest.

The employees at the centre, along with the Morro Bay Harbour Patrol, jumped into action.