Beaver who escaped to find mate welcomes first kit

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Beaver who escaped to find mate welcomes first kit(bbc.com)

35 points by 1659447091 6 days ago | 10 comments

1659447091 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Backstory on Steve the Great Escape beaver: Poster boy of wild England(2025):

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c754lx2wnr1o

worik a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We need more news like this.

Congratulations Steve and Doris

	▲	jvilalta a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes!

rurban 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Is Wales really writing kids as kit? Happens 3 times in the article

happytoexplain a day ago | parent | next [-]

To expand on the other replies, here is a list of animals whose young are called "kits":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit#Animals

1659447091 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A baby beaver is called a `kit`

Milner08 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As the other commenter said, Kit is the name of a baby Beaver.

The welsh for child is plentyn, if you were interested.

	▲	rurban a day ago \| parent [-]
		https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plentyn from plant (singular)! Now that's also interesting!

ohyoutravel a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Five times in the article! One additional in title. One more in a caption. Seven mentions! I know a baby barber is called a kit, but this is ridiculous!

Funny note: Kits are born fully developed. They’re basically like little copies of their parents. Very cute.

	▲	uncivilized a day ago \| parent [-]
		People don’t read past the headline anymore unfortunately