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Show Baby Otter and Other Animals Like to Play I Most playful of 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, puffing puff-ing out their fur until they look like black and white balls, then bouncing bounc-ing round and round on their short stiffened legs. A favorite game 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 play a similar game, but are far more graceful. As they prance around, their slender backs are archc-d, and they look most attractive in their rich dark brown glossy fur. Badgers, pole-I pole-I cats, stoats, and weasels have very little method in their play, unlike the organized games of the otter. I doubt if anyone has ever detected detect-ed play among fish, or seen lizards liz-ards or snakes indulging in games. All these are cold blooded and are only active when the temperature is warm enough to give them an interest in life. The play of foxes will often turn to tragedy so far as the farmer is concerned, for -if they get among fowls they will kill one for food then, like puppies, chase everything that moves. If the birds had the sense to keep still the fox might pass them by, but he will slaughter them by the dozen while they continue to run. |