The Daily Mail is a middle market UK tabloid read by an older generation. It is affectionately known as what we in the beaver reporting business call a “rag” and prints gossip and bad medical advice. It also loves to print beaver stories for some odd reason. In June of 2016 they ran the video of our father beaver raising kids on his own. You can imagine how surprising it was to get the phone call verifying it was mine.
Martinez beavers in the UK? Sure, why not?
Well today they’re running a fun story about yearlings wresting because a local man caught the whole thing on camera. Remember beavers were missing from Scotland for 5oo years so they have some catching up to do.
Dam you! Beavers battle to get the upper hand as they wrestle each other in hilarious footage
A pair of boisterous beavers have been captured on film locked in a rare game of fisticuffs.
The extraordinary footage was captured near a river bank on the River Tay, Scotland, by amateur photographer Colin Black.
It shows the two beavers tussling with each other and wrestling in the water by grabbing each other’s fur.
Of course we’ve been around the beaver block often enough to know that these are two yearlings ‘wrestling’, not beaver battling over territory. Anybody who’s tried to dunk their bossy cousin in the swimming pool will recognize the maneuvers almost instantly. But its fun to see that even castor fiber tries to sink its brother once in a while.
Mr Black said, ‘It was like watching two humans wrestling.
‘It’s very rare to even see that behaviour in the first place, let alone catch it on camera.’
Not that rare, it turns out. Anyone watching teenage beavers will see it. We in Martinez sure did.
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