The Beavers of the River Otter

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall investigates the return of the beaver - and discovers how these dam-building rodents are changing the landscape for the better. Meeting Beaver fans David White, Sylvia Meller, Róisín Campbell-Palmer & Mark Elliott. for more info go to www.devonwildlifetrust.org/riv...

[@Nyctophora]

It makes me happy to know we have beavers again.

[@JonnyOwenTunes]

Fantastic to have beavers back in Devon and Dorset too. Lot of invasive Himalayan balsam in this video... the pink flower which needs pulling to prevent it spreading.

[@PacoOtis]

Bravo! Well done! We noticed the sun was never shining so we know this was really filmed in the UK! LOL Best of luck!

[@tss9886]

I love how excited you get in the UK, I live in Canada and have been on a lake or river and had beavers slapping the water round my kayak to tell me they would rather I get farther from their home.

[@Beesa10]

It's a relatively new and exciting thing to see after hundreds of years of them not being here. Not everyone will be happy with beavers chewing down mature trees and altering waterways, but we need to understand the benefits they bring to ecology etc and in future manage their activities sympathetically instead of exterminating them.

[@RussTillling]

Lovely story! Good to reduce flooding in towns. I dare say some farmers might need a hand with unwanted flooding, but well worth it!

[@KA-eu9sy]

I just became a super beaver fan 2 weeks ago. It was a CNN video. By Jeanne Moos. About beaver Nibi and her nemesis Ziibi. Was so cute. She made a dam to keep Ziibi out after Ziibi left. Cutest thing was at the end when she Nibi was picked up and she threw a temper tantrum. Oh, the cutest angry noises. I was hooked!

[@Nitka022]

Just beautiful. And such a pleasure to watch! So so glad beavers are back! Amazing creatures and so so needed! The more the better...:-)

[@jakedabner8364]

im a big fan of beavers too, they re really nice

[@snowysnowyriver]

@07:04. Beaver's teeth are literally as hard has chisels. Up to 30% of the enamel in beaver teeth consists of iron oxide and iron hydroxide - far higher than the trace amounts found in human or other mammal teeth. This iron reinforcement makes beaver's incisors harder than tempered steel, allowing them to grind through wood with ease. Iron oxides - These contribute to hardness and durability. The main iron oxide is magnetite (Fe3O4). Iron hydroxides - These reinforce enamel against fracture. A major one is goethite (FeO(OH)). This iron content makes beaver enamel the hardest of any rodent at 5.0 on the Mohs hardness scale. For comparison, human enamel hardness is around 4.0.

[@patriciaphillips6925]

That is nice. We have beavers on our land and they are busy chopping away at our local cottonwood trees growing around our property. We have a small beaver types here. We have a lake around our property and they came from no where it seems and one day we notice all the trees they had taken down. My husband doesn't like them but i am amaze at all the do.

[@conniegilbert8512]

Beavers are awesome!!!

[@wor53lg50]

Nice to see what left of wild green britain, now villiage's become towns, and towns become cities, the green acres being built on to home the influx, i just hope in 50 years time we can still witness these sights, somebody who has no connection to their land, dos'nt and wont ever care about it, or the flora, fauna and wildlife within...devonshire is one of last truly wild places in england and may god keep it that way...

[@GerSHAK]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@breAnnasmama]

Lovely documentary!!!! Well done ! Beavers are So cool !!!! If anyone doesn’t agree , I don’t even give a “ DAM” haha jk ... sorry , I’ll let myself out now 😂

[@user-dk5vj2br1o]

Ya beavers have a really hard unfortunate lifes esp.after 2yrs old n thats the most critical hard time n its too bad more ppl cant see that we should be very good n kind to ALL animals/critters!

[@alaverda]

it's amazing! thank you for the video!

[@kurt-foster5925]

and the beaver says, "I was probed by aliens!"

[@tbz1551]

13:48 Like a waiter describing a dish at a fancy restaurant.

[@hughfranklin4002]

We need these amazing animals, they have evolved to manage the flow of streams and rivers, let them do there job.

[@lisaschuster686]

In New England’s countryside they’re considered pests!

[@somethingsomethang]

Just imagine the wild animals going home and saying they were abducted and anally examined…

[@mikejones6898]

mike jones of cumberland gap usa. I found one in my front yard, they are much bigger than they apear on video

[@EASYTIGER10]

How do the beavers and otters get on?

[@lillie0503]

swimmingly

[@nottm9]

They are like Dam it!

[@breAnnasmama]

EASYTIGER10 they contribute to the environment nicely well together :).

[@breAnnasmama]

Naveen Vijayan hahahaha ! They don’t give a DAM! 😂

[@British_Bastard]

I love mini otters but not the giant ones that kill crocodiles

[@litolee5621]

ear tags not good. its to big

[@johnadams5245]

the presenter is damn annoying lol

[@hospitalfood6621]

No he isn’t.