A rare video footage of two beavers wrestling with each other in a Scottish river is going viral on the Internet.
Watch the two beavers wrestling with each other
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Photographer Colin Black spotted the two beavers wrestling with each other near a riverbank on the River Tay, Scotland. He filmed the rare moment and shared the video online which has now gone viral.
Black said that he knew a family of beavers was living in a lodge and he wanted to see them. In the morning, they came out and started wrestling with each other in the river Tay.
He told SWNS: “It was like watching two humans wrestling. It’s very rare to even see that behavior in the first place, let alone catch it on camera.”
“Beavers actually used to be native to Scotland but they were wiped out. They’ve been slowly reintroducing them to the area,” said Black.
“I knew of a family of beavers living in a lodge, which is a kind of a beaver settlement, so I set around watching them. At around five or six in the morning these two beavers came out and they began to tussle.”
“It looks quite vicious but I’ve been told by the Scottish Wild Beaver Group that it’s actually a form of social interactive behavior between them, and it’s rarely seen behavior,” Black added.
The video was shared online and has been viewed thousands of times. People loved the hilarious footage of two beavers wrestling with each other.
One user joked: ‘Those beavers were wrestling about Brexit’ while another user added: ‘I don’t know why this made me lol so much’.
Beavers have been reintroduced in the U.K. There were a reported 430 beavers in the Tayside region, up from 150 in 2012.
According to the Wildlife Trusts, “The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) is a large herbivore, a mammal that was formerly native to these shores and once played an important part in our landscape from prehistoric times until it was hunted to extinction in the 16th century for its fur, meat and scent glands.”
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