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Aquarium apologizes for tweets about sea otter

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium has apologized after some people perceived a tweet about a sea otter as body-shaming.

The aquarium on Tuesday tweeted a picture of Abby, an otter who helps train orphaned otters how to survive in the wild. The tweet featured social media words and phrases such as “thick,” ‘’c h o n k” and “OH LAWD SHE COMIN” which are often used to describe…

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