The first baby beaver born on Exmoor for 400 years and on National Trust land has been spotted on film after previously being hunted to extinction in Britain.
The young beaver known as a kit has been captured on camera on the National Trust's Holnicote Estate in Somerset.
Footage from a static camera captured the six-week-old kit swimming with its mother, back to the family lodge, while she stopped to nibble a branch.
Camera footage has captured shots of the first baby beaver to be born on Exmoor for 400 years, the National Trust said
This latest beaver find comes just 18 months after the conservation charity undertook its first licensed enclosed release of two Eurasian beavers in its 125-year history
Footage from a static camera captured the six-week-old kit swimming with its mother, back to the family lodge, while she stopped to nibble a branch
This latest beaver find comes just 18 months after the conservation charity undertook its first licensed enclosed release of two Eurasian beavers in its 125-year history.
Jack Siviter, one of the rangers on the Holnicote estate said: 'We first had an inkling that our pair of beavers had mated successfully when the male started being a lot more active building and dragging wood and vegetation around the site in late spring.
'The female also changed her usual habits, and stayed out of sight, leaving the male to work alone.
'It was then several weeks until we spotted her again, and this is when our suspicions were confirmed that she had given birth, due to having very visible teats.
'We are particularly pleased for our female, nicknamed Grylls due to her survival instincts, as she didn't have the easiest start to life being orphaned at an early age.
'As a first time mum she seems to be thriving and it's great to see her with her new kit.
'The family should now stay together for the next two years before the kit will naturally want to go off to create a new territory of its
