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Explore Beaver Cam

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Two European beavers, a male and a female called Twiggy and Woody, live at WWT Martin Mere. They have three young kitts (babies) so you could see five beavers on this webcam.  You will often see them all playing together and the bigger beavers are the adults - Twiggy and Woody. 

Beavers are most active at night and have lots of unusual habits.  You will see some of them on this webcam. They include:

• Diving: The access to the lodge (their home) is underwater to make it secure from predators so you will often see them diving to acess the lodge

• Carrying food: We do put a selection of vegetables and willow in the enclosure everyday and you will see the beavers carrying vegetables in their mouth or large branches that they may leave outside the lodge

• Tail slap: You may see the beavers slapping their tail and then dive. This is a form of communication between the beavers when they sense danger

• Blocking pipes: On the right hand side there is an inflow pipe and you will often see them blocking this up to create a dam

You can visit WWT Martin Mere to see where Twiggy, Woody and their young kitts live - it's the only place in the North West where you can see a beaver's natural habitat.