Singapore and its otters feature in new BBC Earth documentary series Mammals

British producer Lydia Baines and her team followed a group of otters called the Zouk family. - BBC STUDIOS

SINGAPORE: For around three weeks, British producer Lydia Baines trailed a family of smooth-coated otters in Singapore. Or, more accurately, she and her team raced after them.

“Otters are not slow animals. They are absolutely crazy fast once they start going. So we were running around Singapore in trainers with our gear in a trolley and listening down drain covers trying to find them again after we lost them,” Baines tells The Straits Times in a Zoom interview.