--- title: Otters play in snow at Grandfather Mountain: Video description: Otters play in the snow at the North Carolina wildlife sanctuary Grandfather Mountain and the National Zoo in Washington D.C. canonical: https://time.com/4193844/otters-snow/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T15:23:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:43.088Z og:title: These Otters Had a Blast Playing in the Snow og:description: Otters play in the snow at the North Carolina wildlife sanctuary Grandfather Mountain and the National Zoo in Washington D.C. og:url: https://time.com/4193844/otters-snow/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Otters Had a Blast Playing in the Snow twitter:description: Otters play in the snow at the North Carolina wildlife sanctuary Grandfather Mountain and the National Zoo in Washington D.C. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Otters Had a Blast Playing in the Snow  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 26, 2016 3:23 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 26, 2016 3:23 PM UTC The worst of the blizzard that [pummeled the East Coast](http://time.com/4191805/snow-totals-east-coast-blizzard/) may be over, but the Internet still can’t get enough of [animals playing in the snow](http://time.com/4191108/animals-frolicking-snow/). The latest is a video of otters Oscar, Nova, and Luna using their bellies as sleds and looking like they’re ready to play fetch at Grandfather Mountain, a wildlife sanctuary in northwest North Carolina. The clips have been shared more than 7,300 times on the social network since they were uploaded over the weekend. The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. also published a photo of its North American river otter Niko paling around in the white stuff:  Chelsea Grubb/Smithsonian's National Zoo ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4193844/otters-snow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4193844/otters-snow/"},"headline":"These Otters Had a Blast Playing in the Snow","datePublished":"2016-01-26T15:23:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:43.088Z","description":"Otterly adorable","url":"https://time.com/4193844/otters-snow/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4193844/otters-snow/","name":"These Otters Had a Blast Playing in the Snow"}}]}] ```