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'First' newborn beavers spotted in the Argyll Forest (reintroduced to Scotland)
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| August 12, 2010
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Posted on 08/14/2010 4:37:29 PM PDT by decimon
The first newborn beavers born in the wild since their re-introduction to the UK last year have been spotted by officials in a Scottish forest.
At least two kits, estimated to be eight weeks old and belonging to different family groups, have been seen in Knapdale Forest in Argyll.
A total of 11 beavers were brought to Scotland from Norway last year as part of the Scottish Beaver Trial.
Beavers were hunted to extinction in the UK 400 years ago.
Some feral beavers have been known to exist in the wild as a result of being released by people who owned them as pets.
Christian Robstad, beaver field officer for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, described seeing the new arrivals was an "amazing" experience.
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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
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...beaver field officer...
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:37:29 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Good job, pension at age 50.
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:38:51 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(JD Hayworth)
To: decimon
dont’ even go there.......
To: decimon
Hunting rats of any breed to extinction is one of the few things the Brits/Scots in the UK have ever done right.
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:40:19 PM PDT
by
MIchaelTArchangel
(Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
To: decimon
Nothing like a wild beaver.
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:40:44 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: decimon
To: omega4179
Good job, pension at age 50.And, for now, you can count the beavers on one hand. But they apparently require a field officer.
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:42:38 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:43:33 PM PDT
by
wazoo1031
To: beaversmom
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:44:09 PM PDT
by
wazoo1031
To: mamelukesabre
Oh I dunno,a little civility in a beaver is a good thing too.
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:44:29 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Where ever there are beaver the jokes are sure to follow!
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:45:01 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
and wild dogs. They did a good job breeding the hunting dogs too.
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:46:17 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: Jack Hydrazine
"Where ever there are beaver the jokes are sure to follow! " . . My cue.
To: decimon
I’ve never had Scottish beaver.
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:48:55 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Ronald_Magnus
And they’re off!!!! LOL!!!!!
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:49:37 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: mamelukesabre
We had some wild beaver in our neighborhood ~ in a few short weeks they'd cut down dozens of trees and hauled them to the area we call "the pit" ~ a sedimentation basin nearby.
There they stood them on end and stuffed them down the main drainpipe and backed it up.
It took over a dozen men working two days to clear this stuff away, catch the beavers, and then take them to somebody else's neighborhood.
That's just a few of the reasons so many folks thought of them as GREAT FOR FUR HATS
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:54:14 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: decimon
Someone said beaver...let the games begin...
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posted on
08/14/2010 4:56:03 PM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: muawiyah
In a way, you have to admire they’re productivity and ingenuity.
To: decimon
“It’s beaver!!!”
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posted on
08/14/2010 5:00:51 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: decimon; SoothingDave; Willie Green
...beaver field officer... 
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