Two rescued southern sea otters appear at the New York Aquarium in the U.S.

This is a cute southern sea otter playing with its feet floating in the water.

The two otters, which opened to the public at the New York Aquarium on the 17th local time, were both rescued from the California coast at an early age.

The sea otters were rescued and cared for at other zoos and aquarium association facilities before being moved to the New York Aquarium, where they are now settled.

Southern sea otters, or California sea otters, live off the coast of California, where hundreds of thousands lived in the North Pacific in the past, but their populations plummeted in the early 1900s due to the fur trade.

In 1977, it was designated and protected as a "threatened species" under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), and it is estimated that only about 3,000 remain in the wild.