Singapore’s otters, long adored by the city-state’s nature lovers, are popping up in unexpected places during the coronavirus lockdown but their antics have angered some and even sparked calls for a cull. With the streets empty, the creatures have been spotted hanging out by a shopping center, scampering through the lobby of a hospital and even feasting on pricey fish stolen from a pond. 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.

Singapore otters’ lockdown antics spark backlash. (2020, June 1). Philippine Daily Inquirer, pp. A1, A4.