This photograph taken on May 29, 2020 shows a smooth-coated otter next to a canal in Singapore. — AFP pic
While many think of tiny Singapore as a densely populated concrete jungle, it is also relatively green for a busy Asian city, and has patches of rainforest, fairly clean waterways and abundant wildlife. “When there’s restriction of movement, there’s less vehicles and there’s less people, so the urban space opens up,” said N. Sivasothi, a biologist at the National University of Singapore known as “Otterman” due to his work on the animals.
“They probably realised that there was nobody there and became more daring,” Low told entertainment news websiteThe case sparked a debate about whether more should be done to stop otters rampaging through the city, with a widely discussed letter in a local newspaper calling for air horns and rubber bullets to be used as deterrents.
NUS’s Sivasothi criticised calls for a cull as “quite an uneducated response”, and said such a move would be ineffective.
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