2011 Oriental small-clawed otters

SingPost released on 1 June 2011 a se-tenant strip of 4 stamps featuring the endangered oriental small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea), also known as the Asian small-clawed otter. The geographical range of this creature appears large, they are currently found from the Himalayan foothills of Himachal Pradesh eastward throughout south Asia, extending southwards to the Philippines and through Indonesia, its actual distrubution however is very thin. The only areas in which these animals are known to be common are Peninsular Malaysia, especially in Kedah, and in the western forests and southern marshes of Thailand. In Singapore, sightings have been recorded from the northern coast of Singapore, namely the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Pulau Ubin and Pulau Tekong. The otter feeds on crabs, mollusks, mudkippers, fish and other small aquatic animals with its hand-like paws. The stamps feature the otters in a mangrove swamp environment, with the propping roots of the mangrove trees, a fiddler crab and a dragonfly. The designer of these stamps is Edmund Chen Zhi Cai, an actor well-known in Singapore. who has also signed on as a stamp ambassador with SingPost. A special serialised imperforated souvenir sheet was also released, and only 1000 of these were printed.