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Maybe We Otter've Brought Some Brews, Eh? (London) - Two Canadian otters at a sanctuary in Scotland have been placed under 24-hour protection from aggressive local otters who are confused by their "foreign accents," a newspaper reported Wednesday.  The National Sea Life Sanctuary in Oban has installed an electric fence and surveillance cameras to protect its Canadian guests, Fingal and Sula, according to The Independent.  Though almost twice the size of their wild Scottish relatives, the pair are disadvantaged by their foreign accents and scent.  "Dialects are common in animal communications, but because of the differences in the sounds they make it will be difficult for these Canadian otters to communicate with the native ones," Matthew Evans, an animal communications expert from Stirling University, was quoted as saying.  "There is no doubt dropping two foreign otters into a territory of wild locals would lead to the local ones beating the living daylights out of the new ones," he added.  The pair arrived at the center's Otter Creek on the banks of Loch Creran a year ago and are currently being housed in an indoor seal pup nursery.


Fingal and Sula by Deda
(To the tune of "Frankie and Johnny")

Fingal and Sula were otters
Oh Lordy how they could ott
They left their Canadian homeland
To see the land of the Scots.

CHORUS:
They spoke, all right,
But they were doing it wrong.

Otters are cuddly and friendly
Sweeter than honey are they
Unless you pronounce something funny
So you better watch what you say.

CHORUS:
If you don't speak Scots
Well, then you're doing it wrong.

Fingal told Sula "start packing.
These bullies and snobs I can't take.
We're heading back across the Atlantic
Where you don't have to spit to say 'lake'"

CHORUS:
They speak, all right,
But someone's doing it wrong.

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