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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-mammals-like-reindeer-chase-fish-nets.html
In Southern Bangladesh, fishermen are busy at work and receiving a helping hand from an unlikely group of companions.
Swimming in circles alongside the fishing boat, otters shriek excitedly as they navigate their way through the river which feeds into the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.
The setting is Narail, some 130 miles from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, where fishermen drop their net close to the riverbank and one by one, tails up, the animals dive into the water.
This is a rare technique that has been handed down for centuries in the country but a partnership which has already long died out in other parts of Asia.
'Our job depends on the otters,' said Shashudhar Biswas, a fisherman in his 50s, whose family has trained the animals to help them fish for generations.
In Southern Bangladesh, fishermen are busy at work and receiving a helping hand from an unlikely group of companions.
Swimming in circles alongside the fishing boat, otters shriek excitedly as they navigate their way through the river which feeds into the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.
The setting is Narail, some 130 miles from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, where fishermen drop their net close to the riverbank and one by one, tails up, the animals dive into the water.
This is a rare technique that has been handed down for centuries in the country but a partnership which has already long died out in other parts of Asia.
'Our job depends on the otters,' said Shashudhar Biswas, a fisherman in his 50s, whose family has trained the animals to help them fish for generations.