A group of wild otters viciously attacked a woman jogging in an inner-city park in Malaysia.
Mariasella Harun, 40, was chased and mauled by eight of the mammals on Wednesday morning in Tanjung Aru, in the northern Sabah state of Borneo island.
A graphic video of the aftermath showed the victim huddled on a pavement with deep gashes visible on her arms, as blood streaked her temple, T-shirt and leggings.
Another clip captured the bevy of otters – each as big as a small dog, with slick dark hair – charging across a car park moments before the attack.
It is the latest in a series of incidents involving humans and otters in the area. A man was recently taken to hospital after another unprovoked attack.
Otter attacks are increasing across the whole of South-East Asia, according to wildlife authorities.
Despite their somewhat cuddly appearance, otters have teeth and jaws that are strong enough to crack open shellfish.
They can weigh up to 14kg and grow up to 4ft, including their tail.
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I’m otterly shocked! 😧
Btw in the local language their name can also mean something like “warring” so that kinda tells you something.
That lady knows what she did.
Someone was probably mean to them but it wasn’t her. She is also not the first to be attacked.
She described finding herself suddenly surrounded by the pack after they “jumped out” from a drain in Perdana Park at about 6am local time.
“At first, I thought it was a cat, but the creature jumped out and bit me while I was running, and there were many of them … I could not even stand up when it happened,” she told local media.
You would take thae human’s side. Whatever. You hairless apes are all the same.
All I know is that no otter ever did me wrong. As long as I could fly away fast enough.
/c/notpythonmonty
Otters, and eagles and orcas, oh my!
They know
Love how nature is fighting back lol
That’s otterly ridiculous!
Otters are not built for speed on land. If you’ve seen one run, you know it’s and awkward hop-hop-hop movement. This lady couldn’t outrun them? Law of nature comes into play I guess.
Nah, the slow hop-hop-hop is like a jog. Mustelids can fucking zoom if they’re in danger or after prey. Like, even dopey-ass domesticated ferrets can get going pretty damn quick when they’ve been hurt or feel threatened. Nobody has posted what species of otter attacked this lady, but river otters can reach speeds of 47 kph (29 mph) on land. Sea otters are slow and fat, but these weren’t sea otters.
You aren’t outrunning a pack of otters in a sprint. It’s no question that you could outrun them over a long distance, but mustelids are zoomy little fuckers.
(note that I like mustelids and had 4 ferrets, so please don’t mistake my tone as being sour on them)
EDIT: holy shit, ferrets can be bred and trained to run at like 22 mph. That’s insane!
Huh, I didn’t know that. I couldn’t see anything in that article so just used what I had seen. Thanks for the info.
No worries. Mustelids aren’t very well understood by the general populace, so I don’t hold it against anyone.
Here’s a still frame of the otters in question. I’m betting they could quickly surprise and surround anyone they caught alone. And would have no problem giving chase on land.
Its maul or be mauled in the Animal Kingdom. That’s just Nature’s nature
It was a gang that was clearly lying in wait and.simultaneously jumped out of the bushes to surround her. Should have just gave them her wallet.
Despite their somewhat cuddly appearance, otters have teeth and jaws that are strong enough to crack open
shellfishhuman fucking skulls.And They’re in the same family as weasels, honey badgers, and wolverines.
I once got to go behind the scenes at a zoo, including their vet’s operating room. They had a bunch of interesting stories about how they tranq and operate on different animals of various sizes, but the worst experience they had was with an otter.
Poor little guy woke up partway through surgery, panicked, and went fucking berserk. Those little claws left gouges a foot long and an inch deep in the vet. And then, because they’re so small and fast, trying to re-anaesthetize it was a huge pain.
Anyways, I think about that story a lot when I hear about otters.
Off to reclaim the Tears of All Oceans
Orcas, eagles, otters. I’m just glad my house cat is indifferent to politics
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Now I’m sitting here on the toilet wondering how many otters I could take on…
Would you rather take on 30 otter-sized horses, or one horse-sized otter?
Horses. They’re built like birds.
That lady handled 40, but she’s a jogger and in better shape than me. I could take 25.
She lost to 8 bro, you’d get ripped to shreds
Oh shit I read it wrong, she’s 40 years old.
Yeah so like 5
You can easily out run them, so you don’t actually need to fight.
But if you did, I don’t think you can take on more then two without any professional fighting skills.
Atleast 0.5
how many otters I can take
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There’s a whole “otter space” joke amongst furries.
And as you sit there deep in thought you feel something tickle your nethers, you think little of it at first but as soon as you feel it again you shift your position and look down. At the same moment your mind comprehends that it’s the hand of an otter, that very hand grabs ahold of your dangling valuables and pulls. You are never seen again.
I read this in the Baldur’s Gate 3 narrator voice.
Looks like the animal kingdom is getting fed up with our bullshit. Real question is when does the alliance between otters and orcas happen?
Ok so the orcas are the navy, eagles are the air force, otters are obviously the marines.
Otters are assholes
Only river otters, sea otters are cute and cuddly, as they would float away if they didn’t hold on tight
Huh. TIL
Don’t read this
“I couldn’t find any reports of attacks on humans from sea otters” this is all I needed to know thanks! So they are perfect creatures who can do no harm and my world view is intact
Lol, if that’s good enough for you, then let the blue skies shine, baby!
Meh, my bet’s on people being the assholes, and other species getting shafted in every aspect by us, and some are annoyed by it.
I mean, some people are, for sure, but otters are full of parasites because they party in their own shit, and their mating practices are… somewhat upsetting to say the least.
Otters are assholes.
This is anthropomorphic thinking. But in order to express the concept that aggressions and other interactions could increase toward species who have built their overinflated infrastructures across migration paths, territories or outright destroyed swathes of habitat of other species, yeh they probably are hella angry at these stupid hairless apes.
Thank you for 'splaining my pretty little head full of your nutritious facts.
Wow, talk about some blatant dog whistling here…
Inner-city otters? Why not just call them musteld hoodlums? Or shrimp theiving thugs?
How much you wanna bet that if this was an artic fox, or polar bear attack, the words inner city would never have appeared in this article…
How much you wanna bet that if this was an artic fox, or polar bear attack, the words inner city would never have appeared in this article…
Ok, that’s fair, but polar bears and arctic foxes aren’t known to frequent the tropics.
Probably because people like you make them feel unwelcome.
Did you ever stop and think that if you made them feel comfortable, that they might visit more often?
I live nowhere near the tropics. In fact, I live in a place where I could actually see polar bears and arctic foxes if I was so inclined. I like that they exist, but I don’t want them anywhere near me, as specist as that may sound.
