Visitor to Singapore Botanic Gardens 'bitten 26 times' by otters; such incidents rare, says Gardens

Mr Graham George Spencer, who is British and a Singapore permanent resident, was bitten by a family of otters near the park’s entrance at Taman Serasi after another runner ran into their path.

While the runner managed to run past Mr Spencer, the otters appeared to mistake him for the runner and attacked him instead, Mr Spencer said.They then jumped on top of him and started biting him in his shoes and around his buttocks through his shorts for about 10 to 12 seconds. Mr Spencer declined an offer from staff members there to travel in an ambulance and chose to walk with his friend to the emergency department at Gleneagles Hospital across the street instead because it was quicker.

Since the episode, Mr Spencer said that his sleep has been disrupted due to nightmares from the incident, and he has been struggling to sit down given that there are 18 “puncture bites” on his buttocks. He said that he wanted to find a way to avoid similar incidents from occurring, in case they result in more serious injury or even death.

Dr Tan also said that volunteers and staff members at the Gardens monitor the movement of otters and educate the public on observing them from a distance and not interacting with them. Ms Anbarasi Boopal, the co-chief executive officer of the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society , said that the presence of young pups in the otter family could have triggered a “defensive response” from them.

Poor guy. Does the NParks release new fish life into the Swan Lakes at Botanical Gardens? These otters have a ferocious appetite, and are pretty aggressive tbh! I’m concerned about the attacks on humans, the poor fish life, turtles, and monitor lizards even. ⬇️👇

These are gangsters

Dude really thought he gonna be killed by the otters

Another boo-hoo by NEA!

The group of otters “hit him in the ankles and pushed (him) to the floor”. What is this? Otter mafia?

Otters are a pest... The faster NEA realise this the better for us. They need to be separated from city living. Cull them if needed

Guy must have been fishy.

I saw 3 otters attacking a monitor lizard at Botanic Gardens just last Saturday. They were pretty rough but luckily the lizard managed to climb out of the pond and the otters left. The otters can be quite gansterish.

Of course rare, but if this happens, next will happen, and become occasional...

Become wild boars look alike?

Time to consider otters numbers in Singapore. Increasing living conditions for otters have a hidden danger to other local natural species, especially the water life we do not monitor. Otters food chain. We don't want to promote otters to owned territory to attack humans.

PeterHoskinsTV Not only are they taking over they are so violent 😱☝

Whether it is rare or not, the otters have attacked. Imagine if the victim was a child.

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