Triplets have been born to the beaver family that starred in The Nature of Things documentary The Beaver Whisperers, and the entire family has been making daily live appearances on CBC's CastorCam.
"Around 10 o' clock, [for] sure you're going to see them every night," said Michel Leclair, general manager of the Eco-Odyssée water maze, where the beavers live, in an interview Wednesday. Eco-Odyssée is located in Quebec's Outaouis region, north of Ottawa-Gatineau.
The entire family typically enjoys their evening meal together at a special site that the mother beaver, Boulotte, and father beaver, Peluche, have prepared by flattening down the vegetation. The site is located just across the canal from a new nursery lodge that the parents built and moved the family into in June. They are often joined by other members of their extended family, such as the older siblings of the baby beavers, or "kits" as they are known.
Leclair and Robert Osborne, who manages content on The Beaver Whisperers website, installed one of two new livestreaming webcams at the nursery site in early July, before the kits first made their on-camera debut about two weeks ago.
Leclair said lately, one of the kits has been visiting the nursery feeding site alone daily around 8 p.m.
"That's going to be the leader," he added. "It's the first one to get out, the first one to explore."
The other two kits tend to stay together, he said.
A second camera has been installed at the beavers' main feeding site, where the adults often eat earlier in the evening before returning to the lodge to pick up their youngsters and bring them to the nursery feeding site, Leclair said.
He estimates that the kits were born in mid or late May — earlier than usual — based on their large size.
It isn't possible to tell how many of the kits are male and how many are female, as they look very alike.
Boulotte is the daughter of Pollux, the matriarch of the family, who played a starring role in The Beaver Whisperers documentary, produced and directed by Jari Osborne, which first aired on March 28. The documentary remains available to be viewed online.
LeClair realized in June that Boulotte and her mate Peluche, had had babies after he spotted Boulotte grooming herself and noticed that her teats were enlarged, suggesting that she was nursing.
"You could not miss it," he said. "I was about 10 feet from her."
At the time, Boulotte and Peluche had just built two new lodges, among the six kilometres of canals and the islands, where their extended family already had 17 existing lodges. Leclair suspected that they had just moved the kits into one of the new lodges.
While CastorCam originally streamed live from inside the beaver family's winter lodge, Leclair decided to install the cameras outside this time, as he worried the family would move the kits to another one of their 19 lodges if they were disturbed.
The Nature of Things is holding a contest to name the babies. Those who submit the two names that are the most popular among CBC readers by Aug. 30, 2013 will win a CBC Nature of Things prize pack, including a canvas tote, a teddy bear, a T-shirt and a water bottle.
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