Otters are driving Singaporeans out of the city and eating millions (6 photos)

Otters are very cute. This fact allows them to ruin Singapore's parks, swindling park administrations out of millions of dollars. Because the park ponds used to be stocked with koi purchased from Japan.





Do you know how much one koi car costs at auction? The most beautiful fish were sold for $1.8 million. And to grow a large 60 centimeter koi requires work and patience.



Koi carp are very fatty, anyone would eat them

Since the lifespan of koi is more than 40 years, many private pond owners have kept koi for entire family generations. But now these family traditions are destroyed and cut short. Eat, otters!

Authorities believe there are about 100 free-roaming otters in the city. The fact is that during the Covid isolation they became completely insolent and moved on foot to parks in the city center without fear of being hit by cars.

Fierce otter clan warriors





This city will be ours!

The funny thing is that every large litter of otters in Singapore is given a name (yeah, that's how they don't like them, that the press chronicles them like "Santa Barbara").

Names are usually given after the major building where they were first noticed, or the area. So there is the Zuk family, named after the nightclub, the Bishan family (after the Bishan Ang Mo Kio Park) and the Marin (simply named after the bay).



A man was bitten by otters while jogging. Why is he!?

When otters eat all the fish and food in their area, they begin to move to the neighboring one, where, as a rule, there is already a flock of their own. Then a fierce battle for territory begins. Which local residents enthusiastically film on their phones.

No one rushes to separate the otters. It is not uncommon for Singaporeans to be hospitalized with otter bites when they get too close to them in parks. Because otters are still wild animals, even if the whole city now considers them their pets.



The locals are not yet tired of being touched by them

Sometimes otters even take over entire condominium pools for a swim. And all the rich inhabitants have to sit quietly below the grass, waiting for the otters to get hungry and leave.

People, by the way, are not at all sad for koi fish, remaining on the side of the fish. Because expensive fish are entertainment for the rich, but everyone can have fun with otters for free.



In general, it’s very nice how the city surrendered to the pressure of otters and resigned itself to fate. Government initiatives to catch otters are met with disapproval. What will prevent them from returning again, only to die along the way?