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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.


When First I Went To Bonnie Scotland by Bullfrog Jones

When first I went to Bonnie Scotland
In search of haggis and fine whisky
And I got boarding down at Loch Creran
Such a welcome I ne'er did see

And it was me and my sister Sula
Swam all the way here from Canadee
We dined on eels in the month of April
Enjoyed the bounty of the sea

But when we landed in Bonnie Scotland
I could not make them understand
That we were cousins here on a visit
From distant cold and snowy lands

They call us Newfies and say we smell
They fence us in so we can't swim free
We try to tell them but they don't hear us
We are not Newfies, we're from B.C.

Well if I'd known then how I'd be treated
Afar from B.C. I'd never stray
I'm heading straight back across the ocean
Goodbye to Scotland, good riddance eh?

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