‘Magical Moment’: Trail Cam Captures Baby Beaver With Mom

Heal Rewilding has announced exciting news—a baby beaver and its mom were caught swimming together on a trail cam. This suggests wild beavers are thriving at a site where they hadn’t thrived previously. Heal Rewilding is a conservation organization based in the U.K., and they’ve been patiently waiting for a baby-beaver sighting just like this one.

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“It’s what we’ve been hoping for—we have a baby beaver at Heal Somerset!” wrote Heal Rewilding wrote in a Facebook post sharing a sweet video of the beaver family. “Having learnt we had a lactating female beaver last month, we created a ‘no-go’ zone to give the beavers some peace and quiet. Then came the hard part of sitting back and waiting! It was a magical moment this morning when we checked our trailcam footage to find this absolute gem—a baby beaver out swimming with its mama! As the adult beaver swims off screen you can hear the distinctive ‘slap’ of its tail—signalling potential danger—so the kit makes its own baby slap and dives out of sight, leaving nothing but ripples.”

See the baby beaver on a trail cam here:

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