According to locals, this is not the first otter attack on a man at this place. However, the family that pounced on Spencer has never been aggressive.
Spencer, who is over 60 and lives in Singapore, said he walked through the garden with his friend early in the morning of November 30 and saw about 20 otters, including young. He believes that a runner who was passing by could not provoke them to attack, he did not see the animals because it was still dark, and he trampled them.
The adult otters then pounced on Spencer as the runner walked away. “I thought I was going to die,” Brit told The Straits Times. They bit his ankles, and when he fell, he also got his legs, ass, and fingers. The animals were discouraged by a friend’s screams.
At the hospital, the Spencers sewed the wounds, gave them an anti-tetanus injection, and antibiotics. He had to visit the surgery three times and it cost him 665 pounds (almost 20,000 crowns). The otters do not blame anything because they protected the young. But he hopes the people in the garden will be more careful now.
The BBC reports that the otter population in Singapore has grown in recent years. They learned to climb ladders and destroyed decorative koi carps worth thousands of dollars.
Local photographer Bernard Seah claims that there are about 150 otters and the family that embarked on Spencer has nine adults and six cubs. “They are used to people and are very tolerant,” he said of the family. According to him, the otters attacked the wrong one as soon as they felt threatened.
The Singapore Park Administration has issued a recommendation urging visitors: “Don’t touch the otters, chase them or drive them away.” Watch them from afar. Getting too close to them will scare them. ”
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