Show baby otter and other animals like to play most playful ot of au all wild creatures are otters for even when full grown they cannot resist anything in the shape of a ball that floats baby badgers romp together puff ing out their fur until they look like black and white balls then ing round and round on their short stiffened legs A favorite game la Is for one to mount a fallen tree and its companions to try to pull it down relates oliver G pike F Z S in london tit bits magazine young polecats pole cats play a similar game but are far more graceful As they prance around their slender backs are arched ind and they look most attractive in their rich dark brown glossy fur badgers pola pok cats stoats and weasels veas cla have very little method in their play unlike the organized games of the otter I 1 doubt it if anyone has ever detected ploy play among fesh or seen lizards or snakes indulging in games all these are cold blooded and are only active when the temperature is warm enough to alve them an interest in life the play of foxes will often turn to tragedy so far as the farmer Is concerned for it if they get among fowls they will kw kill one for food then nen like puppies chose chase everything that moves it if the birds had the sense ense to keep still the to fos might P pass ass them by but he willu will slaughter laughter them by the dozen ahl e they continue to run |