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Beaver believers say the industrious rodent could be key in landscape management
Footage from a diligently watched night vision camera revealed a happy surprise to the team monitoring the new beaver enclosure on the Forty Hall Estate in North London this summer.
A baby beaver was spotted splashing about with its parents in the stark, black-and-white video recording captured by cameras set up around its habitat. The baby, known as a kit, is believed to be the first to be born in the area in hundreds of years.
"We didn't have eyes on the female beaver, so we were a bit concerned," said Meg Wilson, animal collections manager for Capel Manor College, one of the groups leading London's first beaver reintroduction program.
That concern turned to excitement two weeks later when the female appeared again on camera with swollen teats, an obvious sign of feeding, Wilson said.
Footage from a diligently watched night vision camera revealed a happy surprise to the team monitoring the new beaver enclosure on the Forty Hall Estate in North London this summer.
A baby beaver was spotted splashing about with its parents in the stark, black-and-white video recording captured by cameras set up around its habitat. The baby, known as a kit, is believed to be the first to be born in the area in hundreds of years.
"We didn't have eyes on the female beaver, so we were a bit concerned," said Meg Wilson, animal collections manager for Capel Manor College, one of the groups leading London's first beaver reintroduction program.
That concern turned to excitement two weeks later when the female appeared again on camera with swollen teats, an obvious sign of feeding, Wilson said.
