Article 6511E Slippery, hungry, sometimes angry: Singapore struggles with ‘unparalleled’ otter boom

Slippery, hungry, sometimes angry: Singapore struggles with ‘unparalleled’ otter boom

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Fiona Kelliher
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6511E)

Numbers have doubled, with occasional attacks on humans and fish ponds prompting relocation efforts

Singapore authorities have an unusual source of mayhem on their hands: an exploding otter population.

Amid an upswing in interactions between the buoyant, hand-holding mammals and humans in recent months, the National Parks Board, known as NParks, is working to relocate the island's 170 otters away from residential areas and otter-proof people's homes.

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