Bangkok motorcyclist arrested with otter

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Bangkok motorcyclist arrested with otter

By The Nation

 

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A Bangkok taxi motorcyclist was arrested on Thursday morning while he was allegedly delivering a protected baby otter to a buyer.
 

Thana Phiewban, 33, was arrested at 9:30am inside the PTT petrol station on Kamphaeng Phet 2 road in Bangkok's Chatuchak district.

 

A baby Asian small-clawed otter was found in a cardboard box.

 

A team of officials of the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation led police to make the arrest.

 

The team has been monitoring activities of a woman on Facebook, identified as Orn, who offered to sell baby otters and the team staked out the petrol station where the otter would be delivered.

 

The motorcyclist said he was hired for Bt3,900 to deliver the animal but the buyer did not turn up.

 

Police said they will summon the woman to face charges.

 

The otter would be rehabilitated by the wildlife officials, the police said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30354380

 

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[Henrik Andersen]

Good job continue please let the animals live in the nature stop try make money of them 

We all need to protect the nature from greedy people 

[Esso49]

Been here so long and did not know that otters survive in Thailand as an indigenous specie.  I apologise for my ignorance but would love to hear from experts here please to broaden my knowledge

Edited September 13, 2018 by Esso49

[PoorSucker]

5 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

Been here so long and did not know that otters survive in Thailand as an indigenous specie.  I apologise for my ignorance but would love to here from experts hear please to broaden my knowledge

The hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to Southeast Asia and one of the rarest and least known otter species. It is threatened by loss of natural resources and poaching.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy-nosed_otter

[Esso49]

2 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

The hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to Southeast Asia and one of the rarest and least known otter species. It is threatened by loss of natural resources and poaching.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy-nosed_otter

That's interesting and thanks.   Guess having spent so many years in Bangkok and subsequently many years in the NE I was not only unaware but never had the opportunity to have heard about them.

[MaksimMislavsky]

13 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

Been here so long and did not know that otters survive in Thailand as an indigenous specie.  I apologise for my ignorance but would love to hear from experts here please to broaden my knowledge

Oriental small-clawed otter range:

Edited September 13, 2018 by MaksimMislavsky

[lemonjelly]

Can they be bred in captivity?
Quite a lot of them round my way, they occasionally visit the pond behind my house, make a right din in the middle of the night when it’s breeding season I think


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[BritManToo]

My local Indian restaurant invented a new dish they called 'Tarka Masala', I asked them what it was like and they told me it was a little like 'Tikka Masala' only otter.

[from the home of CC]

28 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

That's interesting and thanks.   Guess having spent so many years in Bangkok and subsequently many years in the NE I was not only unaware but never had the opportunity to have heard about them.

ya otter have known!? 

[james.d]

no beaver innuendo's inserted yet..

[AhFarangJa]

16 hours ago, james.d said:

no beaver innuendo's inserted yet..

Just for you......

[alanrchase]

17 hours ago, Esso49 said:

Been here so long and did not know that otters survive in Thailand as an indigenous specie.  I apologise for my ignorance but would love to hear from experts here please to broaden my knowledge

Same here. I was fishing a year or so ago and one popped it's head out of the water and hissed at me. Had to check on internet to see if they were an indigenous species. Wife said they are very tasty.

[nervona81732]

When I first moved here , I spotted an animal crossing the road down by the canal by my place, took me a moment to realize what I was looking at before I realized it was a river otter. Six months later saw another one crossing the road next to another canal many kilometers away from the first. This is in Ubon province out in the country. The canals are chock full of fish ( their diet ). Probably lots of those critters out there.  They are not small by any means.

[sirmud63]

16 hours ago, james.d said:

no beaver innuendo's inserted yet..

 

[Gandtee]

20 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

Can they be bred in captivity?
Quite a lot of them round my way, they occasionally visit the pond behind my house, make a right din in the middle of the night when it’s breeding season I think


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Are  you sure they are otters and not mongooses? I remember two mongooses chasing each other round a banana tree on a moonlit night outside our bedroom window. Kicking up a racket but great to observe. Sadly, development has changed all that. I rarely see a snake now, when we used to have sightings and sometimes meetings with them often.

[DiDiChok]

A neighbour's got one that comes in for a visit and screeches a lot begging for a bit of white fish, which it loves.  It's got some really sharp teeth so you don't put your fingers near its mouth, but it likes to be fussed a bit and stroked.  Follows you around like a small dog in case you've got anything else to eat, but then it goes quiet.  It also likes to go to the bathroom where it loves splashing about in water.  Then it dries off, curls up and sleeps with the cat in the shade under a bush in the garden.  It seems happy enough but I'm no vet and this is Thailand.

[lemonjelly]

Are  you sure they are otters and not mongooses? I remember two mongooses chasing each other round a banana tree on a moonlit night outside our bedroom window. Kicking up a racket but great to observe. Sadly, development has changed all that. I rarely see a snake now, when we used to have sightings and sometimes meetings with them often.

Definitely otters, playing in the water and running amok around the house, get quite feisty in mating season, had a couple harassing us last year, the neighbor had to lock himself in his house, it was hilarious, although I think those 2 were escaped convicts that one of the locals had caught the year before.


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