Britain's first wild beaver for 500 years caught on camera

express.co.uk ^ | January 21, 2014 | Dion Dassanayake

[Berlin_Freeper]

THE first wild beaver seen in 500 years in the UK was caught on film gnawing on a tree.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Venezuelan beaver cheese?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I came for the comments. Once again, you guys did not disappoint!

[wardaddy]

without question my favorite all-time British wild beaver crazy but cool and still way hot even at the big four OH

This pic is 2012 BTW

Prolly cause she's a 6 inch taller version on my wife....I bought the new Playboy with her on cover and A stole it from me..lol.....lord....Playboy is so gay now

[martin_fierro]

[verga]

It would have to have been a European swallow, initially unladen.

[verga]

I never knew that trees had teeth, yellow or otherwise.

[Lakeshark]

Just when you thought she couldn't get caught, Derlly emerges from it all.

Gotta be Darks fault.........

[TexasCajun]

Couldn't be talking about Madonna!!

[TexasCajun]

[DariusBane]

Yes, beaver is always shy. You have to develop a special affinity with the species to see beaver in living color.

[RichInOC]

In the woods of Devon...beaver eats you!

[Bratch]

[DariusBane]

yes Beaver is difficult to see in the dark. I always insist on a light source. Everybody wins.

[Cvengr]

but did they get it stuffed?

[Hot Tabasco]

Someone care to explain how that beaver got the U.K.? He sure as hell didn’t hitchhike.

You do know that beavers swim don't you? Approx. 4 years ago there were several beavers who dammed up the watershed drain on the eastern border of my subdivision (just north of Detroit in a very heavily populated area). Afraid that a heavy and prolonged rainstorm would cause the roadway to flood, a resident called the DNR to report the damn beavers and they came in, trapped 'em and took 'em away.

That there British beaver could very well be one of the beavers taken from my area......

The best way to determine that is to interview the beaver and if he doesn't have a Brit accent then it is definitely an American beaver.........

As for the road, its a good thing the DNR destroyed the dam because about a month later we did receive a heavy and long rainstorm that would have flooded the road had the dam been left.

I still miss the beavers tho........

[NorthMountain]

[Stonewall Jackson]

Same here, but I am going to go get some popcorn.

[spawn44]

No shortage of people gnawing on wild beaver over here.

[Hot Tabasco]

As a side note, about a month and a half ago I spotted a roadkill beaver on a high traffic road near to my house and close to that watershed I mentioned. I also have a friend who lives in a wooded area in Troy and he had to destroy a beaver dam that was clogging up a major culvert near his house.

It's apparent that beavers are now adapting to suburbia just as the nuisance deer are.............

[Slings and Arrows]