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.
She is the episodic producer behind The New Wild, one of six parts in the new BBC Earth documentary series Mammals, which shines a spotlight on Singapore and its beloved furry denizens.
Premiering on April 7 at 8pm on BBC Earth (StarHub Channel 407 and Singtel Channel 203) and BBC Player, the series aims to show the intelligence that enables mammals to learn, remember, problem-solve, parent and cooperate.
It is narrated by Sir David Attenborough and comes more than two decades after a similarly themed series, The Life Of Mammals (2002), also presented by the respected 97-year-old British broadcaster, naturalist and author.
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