How many species of otter world wide?

Many may not know that we have only 13 species of otters world wide, and all of them are on the IUCN Redlist.
The 13 species are: -

1. African clawless otter
2. Asian small-clawed otter
3. Congo clawless otter
4. Sea otter
5. North American river otter
6. Marine otter
7. Neotropical otter
8. South American river otter
9. Eurasian otter
10. Spotted-Necked otter
11. Hairy-Nosed otter
12. Smooth-Coated otter
13. Giant otter

Source: IUCN OSG

Blogging again....

Some of my friends have been urging me to start writing again. Since I wasn't teaching and still nursing a cough, I thought I'd refresh my blog and also write an update. 

Wow! it has been a year since I last posted. During that time frame many things happened: -

The Famous Five is now the Bishan 10

The pair had another litter of five pups in the Kallang Basin area at the beginning of 2016. Since then they've been in the media darlings. BBC News called them "Singapore's celebrity urban otter family". NatGeo Wild, referred to them as the river-siders in their documentary - Otter Town that was recently released in the US. The family is also in the running to be our 51st icon to represent our nationhood. They also delighted many of the delegates from the 13th International Otter Congress 2016, which was held here in Singapore. The International Otter Congress, held once every few years, gathers members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Otter Specialist Group (OSG) to discuss conservation statuses, future strategies and threat mitigation for the 13 otter species.