Beaver who escaped to find mate welcomes first kit

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

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

We need more news like this.

Congratulations Steve and Doris

Yes!

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

A baby beaver is called a `kit`

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

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

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plentyn from plant (singular)! Now that's also interesting!

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

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

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.

People don’t read past the headline anymore unfortunately