Otters kill over 40 koi & fishes leaving Bukit Timah resident

Otters kill over 40 koi & fishes leaving Bukit Timah resident

Source: mothership

10/3/2022

One Bukit Timah resident was shocked and "devastated" after waking up one day to find his pet fishes massacred by what he presumes to be a family of otters.
Yuen Ying Tham has been living on a landed property at Berrima Road in the Bukit Timah area since 2002. The house was built with two ponds as the family has the hobby of rearing koi fish.

The 36-year-old told Mothership that the past 20-odd years have been peaceful, with no unusual incidents of otter invasions or the like.

This only made the discovery of his prized koi and other fishes being nearly wiped out, on the morning of Oct. 2, a rude awakening.

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