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	Beaver who escaped to find mate welcomes first kit (bbc.com)
	35 points by 1659447091 11 days ago

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1659447091 9 days ago

Backstory on Steve the Great Escape beaver: Poster boy of wild England(2025):

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c754lx2wnr1o

worik 6 days ago

We need more news like this.

Congratulations Steve and Doris

jvilalta 6 days ago

Yes!

rurban 9 days ago

Is Wales really writing kids as kit? Happens 3 times in the article

happytoexplain 6 days ago

To expand on the other replies, here is a list of animals whose young are called "kits":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit#Animals

1659447091 9 days ago

A baby beaver is called a `kit`

Milner08 6 days ago

As the other commenter said, Kit is the name of a baby Beaver.

The welsh for child is plentyn, if you were interested.

rurban 6 days ago

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plentyn from plant (singular)! Now that's also interesting!

ohyoutravel 6 days ago

Five times in the article! One additional in title. One more in a caption. Seven mentions! I know a baby barber is called a kit, but this is ridiculous!

Funny note: Kits are born fully developed. They’re basically like little copies of their parents. Very cute.

uncivilized 6 days ago

People don’t read past the headline anymore unfortunately