{"id":350051,"date":"2026-01-03T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:14:07","slug":"beavers-chip-and-willow-make-their-home-at-mapperton-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350051\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavers Chip and Willow make their home at Mapperton Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a Facebook post, the estate said the sighting was a &#8220;significant milestone for our beaver project and who knows what may follow&#8230; little kits perhaps?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Estate owner Luke Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, said he was &#8220;delighted&#8221; to announce the arrival of Chip and Willow, whose names were suggested by members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Woody and Twiggy made their famous escape over a year ago and it&#8217;s taken us a while to find a new pair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Chip and Willow did not know each other, he said there was a &#8220;risk&#8221; they might not get along, initially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a Facebook post, the estate said the sighting was a &#8220;significant milestone for our beaver project and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-350051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350051","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=350051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}