After just a few months, for the second time ever, a wild sea otter travelled far and wide to reach the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California just to give birth.

These two fully pregnant otters went into a tedious journey into the aquarium's Great Tide Pool to safely give birth to their pups as aquarium staff revealed that they are now doing well. Biologists and marine mammal experts believe that both mother otters were forced to make this perilous journey due to the storms that ravaged their habitat seas, where as compared to the Great Tide Pool, the aquarium offered shelter and even big rocks for nesting. 

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Last December, a huge rainstorm was present in the region as the first wild sea otter mother decided to swim towards the aquarium. However, another storm has been passing through the region this week, which prompted this second birth. The whole wild sea otter giving birth was recorded up close by the "periscope" camera in the aquarium. Watch the video here.

This new addition to the aquarium is now called "sleeping fur ball" by the facility's staff members, as this latest pup that was still in the pool on Sunday, where hundreds of visitors came to see the new pup to watch it along with its healthy mother.

The aquarium has been bustling with new marine mammal activity lately, which also features a gray whale that swims nearby, as its presence graced the aquarium audience, flipping its tail in front of visitors before going back inside the kelp forest.

The aquarium posted all of these updated on its Facebook page, describing how sea otters can give birth on water or on land. The mother can be seen grooming her pup immediately to help make it warm and buoyant, making a well groomed sea otter pup truly buoyant that it is practically unsinkable.

The post also revealed that, grooming not only keeps the pup afloat but it also starts the blood flowing into the internal organs and systems, to become strong and when the pup begins to hunt invertebrates, keeping near shore ecosystems healthy such as the kelp forests in Monterey Bay and eel grass located at Elkhorn Slough.

The sea otters are a species of marine mammals that are considered to be endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.