JOLLY DAYS

Otter Love

I think I first saw this YouTube vid on NBC. About 8 million people have also viewed it. Two sea otters holding “hands” . You don't have to make much of an effort to anthropomorphize this — it does it for you.

If animals could talk the calculus would change dramatically. A cranky rabbit complaining all the time, a foul mouthed kitten, a canary that was hypercritical, a turtle who was an extremist ideologue — those cute creatures might quickly lose their charm.

On the other hand, if we could open our hearts to our species as we do to other species, as the song goes, oh what a world this would be.