Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — The Cunning of an Otter. [ARTICLE]

The Cunning of an Otter.

In the Zoological Gardens there is an otter that had a couple o; young ones. One day these young ones got into the pond and were quite unable to climb up its perpendicular sides. The mother appeared anxious to get them out, and made several useless attempts to reaeh them from this side of the pond. She then plunged into the "water, and, after playing with one of them for a short time, she pi\t her head close to its ear, as if to make it understand her intention, and then sprang out of the pond, while the young one clung tigbtijr by its teeth to her tail. And then, having landed it, she forthwith rescued the other one in the same manner. —London Globe.