{"id":583492,"date":"2026-05-14T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583492\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:58:08","slug":"beaver-seen-chasing-off-otter-in-amazing-footage-in-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583492\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver seen chasing off otter in &#8216;amazing&#8217; footage in Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is thought the otter got into the enclosure through a culvert which is too small for the beavers. Many species of wildlife such as badgers and deer also share the enclosure with the beavers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was pretty amazing, really, we know there are other wildlife species within that enclosure, but we never quite understood the actual interaction,&#8221; said Davies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The clip shows what looks like playful chasing near a lodge, but Davies said it is something else entirely. &#8220;It was more so a territorial thing, really,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;So one of the adults was trying to chase him off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That otter really could have been a potential predator for the younger beaver kits,&#8221; Davies said. &#8220;So, it&#8217;s nice to know that they&#8217;re very protective, and that they&#8217;re thriving down there as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is thought the otter got into the enclosure through a culvert which is too small for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-583492","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\/583492","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=583492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}