{"id":325016,"date":"2025-12-19T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325016\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:30:16","slug":"update-on-otter-cubs-rescued-from-warwickshire-parkland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on otter cubs rescued from Warwickshire parkland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The otters were five weeks old when they were found in October, with rescuers reporting seeing the mother leave the holt after the tree had fallen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave Webb, from the otter trust, said at the time she may have been &#8220;spooked&#8221; by the fall, and said the cubs were in &#8220;immediate danger&#8221; when she did not return the next day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Compton Verney said the cubs are now weaned and settling in to the rehab centre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The post said: &#8220;We can confirm that Snap and Crackle are both male and Pop is female. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the time of their rescue, Pop weighed under 300 grams and was the smallest cub the trust had ever looked after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Otters have been present at Compton Verney since 2020, but this is the first confirmed breeding on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The art gallery added: &#8220;Thanks to swift action from the grounds team here at Compton Verney and the commitment and expertise of the team at the otter trust, the three siblings are going from strength to strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fingers crossed they can make a safe return to Compton Verney in the autumn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The otters were five weeks old when they were found in October, with rescuers reporting seeing the mother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-325016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}