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Beaver Kit Update: September 5, 2012
Thank you to everyone who voted in our Name the Beaver Kits Contest. We have collected all entry forms and will be announcing the beaver kits name shortly. Please check back here or on our Facebook page to find our our beaver kits names!
August1, 2012
Buttonwood Park Zoo Celebrates the Arrival of Three Baby Beavers!
New Bedford, Massachusetts- Mayor Jon Mitchell joined the jubilant staff and members of the Buttonwood Park Zoo 
Society today in celebrating the unexpected arrival of three baby beavers to New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park Zoo.
Mayor Mitchell was enthusiastic about the turn of events, “There’s a long list of terrific reasons to make the Buttonwood Park Zoo a regular destination for your family. The chance to see our beaver babies up close is just one more!”
The Zoo’s veterinary and keeper staff examined and weighed each kit hours after their birth. All are healthy and weighed in at 453g, 514g, and 554g.
Their mother, Acorn, was born at the Pittsburgh Zoo and arrived at the Buttonwood Park Zoo in 2008. Their father, Butternut, left the Zoo a few months ago to be part of a breeding program in Nebraska. The three young beavers are currently visible on exhibit with their mother and aunt.
Zookeeper Shelley Avila-Martins said, “All kits are now swimming and diving very well. Mom keeps taking them out of the water to put them back in the lodge but our kits are determined to keep going back into the water. They’re getting more independent each day and are now able to swim and return to land by themselves.”
A contest to Name the Kits will run from August 16, 2012 until September 3, 2012 at 5:00pm. The public will have a chance to vote on their choice of nine names pre-selected by the zoo keepers. Zoo members will have the first chance to vote as the contest will kick off during the Zoo’s annual Members’ Night celebration. Starting August 17th, the public may vote for their favorite name online or in person at the Zoo. Anyone who casts a vote for one of the winning names will be entered into a random prize drawing. At the conclusion of the naming contest, the Zoo will release the kits’ names to the public.
“The American Zoo and Aquarium Association has called New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park Zoo “one of the finest small zoos in the United States.” The zoo is home to nearly 150 species of animals, ranging from tiny frogs to enormous elephants. Buttonwood Park Zoo was established in 1894 and is the 12th oldest zoo in the United States.
I hope one of the names is CHEWBARKA!
Just somethin plain and simple but cute !
” MOE LARRY and CURLY ” especially with how beavers are so strange and funny in how they act in their day to day life it would fit them………. I don’t know if you were taking names to put together before the start date but here is three names. What the hey I my as well try to put them in
have fun enjoy the babies. they are really fun to watch.
Will they be bringing the dad breaver back? I know that beavers mate for life. Does Acorn miss her mate?
We like these names for the new baby beavers: Chewy, Bucky, and Snap !
I think one of them should be named Eager!
Loved the picture in the paper!
names should be squash,potato,and tomato
The beaver babies are beautiful. Buttonwoods “pride and joy”
I submit the names:
1. Bentley
2. Brownie
3. Mathers (in honor of Jerry Mathers, who played “the beav” for many years on TV.
Hope to see the babies soon. Please consider my three suggestions!
Since the parents are named Acorn and Butternut, it would only be fitting to name them Squash, Maize and Beans !!!!!!!!! They are the agricultural crops of Native America !! Or they could be Pumpkin, Squash and Zucchini !! Gosh, there are so many names ????
Here are some names we came up with: Chuckles, Walnut, Peanut, Hazel, Mandy, Woody, Brownie, Cupcake, Carrie, Leo, Jen, Bob, Buck & Roary
Since thier arrival was a suprise,like magic, why not call them BIPPITY,BOPPITY and BOO!
How about…..Willow, Birch and Spruce
I was hoping that one of the names would be Pattypan. I welcome them to our wonderful zoo, no matter what their names may be!! <3
I really like Woody, Chippi, and Hazel!
I think the names should have been types of squashes since mom and dad are amed acorn and butternut. I was thinking zucchini, summer, and winter.
how about cow? that would be awesome!