This video is proof that a beaver is alive and well in England,
centuries after they were believed to have gone extinct in that
country. No one is sure how it got there, but it's munching on
trees in Devon.  According to Scientific American's John Platt,
beavers are a success story in the annals of extinction. A
little over a century ago, their population had plummeted to
1,200 beavers worldwide; today their population numbers over a
million individuals. They're returning to all their old haunts,
including England.  Environmental scientist Tom Buckley filmed
the beaver with a camera trap. Platt writes:  Of course the big
question remains: Where the heck did the beaver come from? It
seems just a wee bit unlikely that a beaver could swim over to
the British Isles from France or Germany or Belgium, each of
which have healthy populations. Could it have slipped away from
captivity? There's precedent: Three beavers escaped from the set
of a planned wildlife photography business back in 2008; two
females were quickl