They featured in a documentary narrated by David Attenborough, are tracked avidly by the local media - and have been spotted more frequently since people were asked to stay home and workplaces closed in April to fight the virus. "When there's restriction of movement, there's less vehicles and there's less people, so the urban space opens up," said N. Sivasothi, a biologist at the National University of Singapore known as "Otterman" due to his work on the animals. But their newfound freedoms appear to have emboldened the otters, and they are now facing a backlash.
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