{"id":5359,"date":"2014-03-02T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2014-03-09T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:58:45","slug":"wild-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/wild-beavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/feb\/27\/wild-beavers-england-devon-river\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"name headline  \">Wild beavers seen in England for first time in centuries<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Footage of a family of beavers filmed in a Devon river is believed to be the first sighting of its kind in up to 500 years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Jessica Aldred<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"contentUrl representativeOfPage\" alt=\"Beavers in River Otter, Devon\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Environment\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/2\/27\/1393513072471\/Beavers-in-River-Otter-De-009.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" data-pin-description=\"Two beavers were caught on camera playing at night while a third one (in background) is gnawing a tree on the banks of the River Otter, Devon. Tom Buckley got the footage with a hidden infrared motion sensor camera. Photograph: Tom Buckley\/Apex\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Two beavers were caught on camera playing at night while a third one (in background) is gnawing a tree on the banks of the River Otter, Devon. Tom Buckley got the footage with a hidden infrared motion sensor camera. Photograph: Tom Buckley\/Apex<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A family of wild beavers has been seen in the England countryside in what is believed to be the first sighting of its kind in up to 500 years.<\/p>\n<p>Three European beavers (<em>Castor fiber<\/em>), believed to be adults,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-22559841\" target=\"_blank\">have been filmed together<\/a>\u00a0on the River Otter in east Devon and can be seen gnawing at the base of trees, grooming themselves and playing together.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the sighting was &#8220;highly significant&#8221; as it strongly suggested a small breeding population of beavers now existed outside captivity.<\/p>\n<p>European beavers were once widespread in the UK but were hunted to extinction by the 16th century in England and Wales for their fur, medicinal value and meat.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/feb\/27\/wild-beavers-england-devon-river\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian Wild beavers seen in England for first time in centuries Footage of a family of beavers filmed in a Devon river is believed to be the first sighting of its kind in up to 500 years by Jessica Aldred Two beavers were caught on camera playing at night while a third one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}