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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Keenan

Shetland man’s bond with otter becomes subject of award-winning film

A man sitting on a seaweed-covered rock leans over to talk to an otter who is looking up at him
Billy and Molly on the shore. Photograph: Charlie Hamilton James

National Geographic will be streaming a new documentary about an unlikely bond between a man and an otter in Shetland.

Billy Mail met Molly, a starving pup, in 2021 when he saw her jumping off a pontoon into the sea near his Shetland home. Mail wanted to see how close he could get to her before she fled. But it turned out that Molly had no intention of running away.

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