Over ten years ago, a family of beavers turned up in a part of the river Otter, in Devon.

十多年前，德文郡水獭河中出现了一个海狸家族。

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'All the world seems to be out on the river today,' said the Otter while he ate. 'I came up this side river to try and get a moment's peace, and then I find you fellows having a lunch party!

“今天所有人似乎都在河上，”水獭边吃边说，“我游到这条支流上是想安静一会儿，不想却碰到你们哥俩在搞午餐派对！”

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The Rat and the Otter were having a long conversation about river-bank matters, so the Mole began to talk to the Badger.

水鼠一直和水獭聊着河岸边的事情，因此鼹鼠开始和獾交谈。

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Despite abuse from a 15-pound baby girl, an attack by a pack of feral raccoons, a chewing by an ADD-addled river otter named Sidney, a ride to the bottom of a salt water pool with a dolphin, and a stomping from a 7, 400 pound elephant named Valerie, the Casio had survived.

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Judge Andrew Keyser QC said the agency did not build otter holts on the Afon Cegin river close to Mr Dobson's fish farm.

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The Otters and Rivers Projects aims by 2003 to have otter populations return to all of the river systems where the creatures have been recorded since 1960.

BBC: News | UK | Otters return to UK rivers