Our Little World

Morning comes again. A ray of sunlight enters the den, and one pup wakes — then wakes his brother, who wakes his sister. The three pups sneak outside, Mama wakes and follows, and Papa is already waiting beside the river.

Splash! All five otters enter the water. They swim, they dive, they fish, they play. The little sister, who was nervous at the water's edge at the start of the season, now dives confidently underwater — and her brothers follow her.

The camera slowly rises above the river. The otters become tiny within the enormous mangrove — the ficus tree, the sandy bank, the winding river. The mangrove was a big world. But for the little family, it was home.