people will tell you absolutely vile shit their parents did so casually and leave you feeling like an asshole cuz you were annoyed at your mum for interrupting an episode of your show
@LaerayaFPS honestly if scopely knows how to play ball when the(supposed)new go plus subscription comes out, make a pokemon trainer pass that covers all monthly passes, event passes, make every go pass deluxe have a mix of coins, timed inc, and trinket,make it like $30, and lowk not bad deal
A sea otter will pick one favorite rock and keep it for years. Same rock. It rides in a baggy pocket of loose skin under one arm, and comes out to crack clams open against its chest. Besides apes and monkeys, they are one of the only animals on Earth that use tools.
That is the brain you are watching. When an aquarium otter learns to put a toy away or hand something back to a keeper, it is running on the same wiring that opens shellfish in the wild. These animals get bored and restless without a job to do.
The ice itself is more than a snack. The staff freeze little bits of seafood inside a block of ice, and the otter has to bash it and pry it apart to reach the food. Same move it would use on a clam. It keeps a busy, curious animal happy for a long stretch.
And a sea otter runs hot. It has no blubber, none of the fat that keeps a seal or a whale warm. All it has is fur. The thickest fur on the planet, up to a million hairs jammed into a single square inch. Your whole head holds about a hundred thousand. That coat only works if it stays clean and full of trapped air, so a wild otter spends hours every day just grooming itself.
Running a furnace like that costs a fortune in food. A sea otter eats roughly a quarter of its own body weight a day. Picture a grown adult sitting down to forty pounds of food, every single day, just to keep from freezing.
So the ice cube the keeper hands over is a reward and a tiny puzzle at once. The otter cracking it open on its chest is doing the exact thing its wild cousins do to a clam, out in the freezing Pacific.