You can watch Cowlitz Tribe's livestream of baby beaver family

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe is livestreaming a family of four baby beavers and their mother as they prepare to be relocated into the wild.

On the Cowlitz "Kit Cam" - because baby beavers are known as kits - viewers will be able to watch the young beaver family grow and learn behaviors essential for survival, the tribe said in a news release.

The furry stars of this beaver-y Truman Show were born April 16. On Tuesday morning, the family could be seen snuggled together in its enclosure, shifting every once in a while to get comfy.

The livestream is a new feature of the tribe's ongoing beaver relocation program, which relocates about 70 beavers from 20 to 30 family groups a year to areas that are suitable for beaver habitat, the tribe said.

Beavers in the relocation program are brought to the tribe's beaver husbandry facility on the Cowlitz reservation in Southwest Washington and held while more members of their family are captured, and held for seven to 10 days before they are relocated.

Once a beaver family is gathered together, it's released into suitable habitats and monitored to track the success of the relocation and habitat outcomes.

Relocation helps restore natural ecosystem processes while reducing animal-human conflict in more developed areas, the tribe said.

Beaver populations are below desired levels in many areas, but the animals are a foundation species that help restore wetlands, improve water quality, increase drought resilience, and create habitat for fish and wildlife.

"Beavers are amazing ecosystem engineers and create high quality complex wetland habitats that support biodiversity and ecosystem properties that can help buffer projected impacts of climate change," Jesse Burgher, wildlife program manager for the tribe, said in the release.

Viewers will be able to watch the four babies on the Cowlitz Kit Cam until they are released into the wild.

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