Sea otters wind up eating anywhere, depending on what treatments they're doing, between 25 and 35 percent of their body weight a day which is obviously a lot of food.
There's also a pyloric sphincter, or valve, at the end of the stomach which closes while eating, keeping food inside for the stomach to churn over and over again.
OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from our discussion about emotional eating - that's eating too much food because of how you feel, not because you're hungry.
Fortunately, our marine creatures do an excellent job at both gathering and eating, so we must continue to go out into the oceans and confront the often difficult oceanic conditions in an attempt to capture them for food.