{"id":551285,"date":"2026-04-26T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:31:07","slug":"stanwick-lakes-rangers-excited-as-bouncy-otters-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551285\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanwick Lakes rangers &#8216;excited&#8217; as &#8216;bouncy&#8217; otters spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Branson said: &#8220;The cubs are very bouncy and playful at the moment, but at this stage are likely to be learning to hunt alongside their mother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rockingham Forest Trust, which runs the site, believed the footage shows the cub&#8217;s &#8220;first forays into hunting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cubs are likely to stay with their mother for a year or two before &#8220;becoming fully independent&#8221;, it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its resident male otter has also been making regular appearances, leaving spraints (poo) to mark his territory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t often get to see otters this clearly, so footage like this is always a real highlight for the team,&#8221; the trust said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Branson said: &#8220;The cubs are very bouncy and playful at the moment, but at this stage are likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-551285","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\/551285","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=551285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}