River Otters are the clowns of fresh water streams. I never tire of watching their antics as they search for food. Late one winter I watched a family stop it's search for food in a mostly frozen north Idaho stream just to toboggan repeatedly down a snow covered slope. A few years ago I watched another family play "Up Periscope" through holes in the ice of a Minnesota River slough. And just recently I watched a blind in one eye youngster hunt salmon smolts in a drainage in downtown Anchorage, without a care at all that we were there for over an hour enjoying it's antics. River Otters know how to have fun!