Milo,
a sea otter seen by more than 16 million people on YouTube after a
video was posted showing him holding paws with his female companion, has
died of cancer at the Vancouver Aquarium, the facility announced last
week. Milo, the first live sea otter to be diagnosed with lymphoma, had
been treated with "innovative chemotherapeutic care," the aquarium said,
but the 12-year-old animal died Wednesday. Milo, born in Portugal's
Lisbon Aquarium, became a YouTube video hit when he was filmed four
years ago floating on his back side-by-side and holding paws with his
female companion Nyac. Nyac, who survived the Exxon Valdez oil spill,
died in 2008 of lymphocytic leukemia at the age of 20, the aquarium
said.
