Sea otters hold hands while they sleep to keep from drifting apart, which sounds incredibly adorable until you learn they are also notorious for highly aggressive mating…

A closer look

Sea otters hold hands while they sleep to keep from drifting apart, which sounds incredibly adorable until you learn they are also notorious for highly aggressive mating behaviors; they form these fuzzy rafts to stay safely grouped together in the ocean currents, using kelp as an anchor, creating a picture-perfect image of marine innocence that successfully distracts everyone from the darker, more violent realities of survival in the wild, proving that good public relations can cover up almost anything