{"id":671555,"date":"2026-01-03T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671555\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:56:10","slug":"beavers-chip-and-willow-make-their-home-at-mapperton-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671555\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavers Chip and Willow make their home at Mapperton Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a Facebook post, the estate said the sighting was a &#8220;significant milestone for our beaver project and who knows what may follow&#8230; little kits perhaps?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Estate owner Luke Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, said he was &#8220;delighted&#8221; to announce the arrival of Chip and Willow, whose names were suggested by members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Woody and Twiggy made their famous escape over a year ago and it&#8217;s taken us a while to find a new pair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Chip and Willow did not know each other, he said there was a &#8220;risk&#8221; they might not get along, initially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a Facebook post, the estate said the sighting was a &#8220;significant milestone for our beaver project and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-671555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115832224619216044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}