A raccoon was spotted frolicking in a place that is drastically different from one of the animal's regular haunts (a trash can).
A Vancouverite captured an adorable video of a stripey-tailed bandit splashing around in Stanley Park's Lost Lagoon early Thursday (April 20) morning.
Former Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Tricia Barker shared the video on her Twitter account, remarking that she's "always looking for a beaver" when she walks by the water.
"Maybe this little guy was doing a beaver impersonation?" she quipped.
Good morning Vancouver.
— Tricia Barker 🇨🇦🏴 (@TriciaBarker49) April 20, 2023
When I walk around Lost Lagoon in the morning I'm always looking for the beaver.
Look what I saw this morning... Maybe this little guy was doing a beaver impersonation? 🤔😁#pickhappy #enough pic.twitter.com/kfTMejXEjj
Beavers returned to Stanley Park after several decades
Known for building large dams, lodges, and canals, you're more likely to see evidence of beavers than you are to spot one of the large rodents. So, when the first beaver was spotted in Stanley Park's Beaver Lake in over 60 years, it made a considerable splash.
In 2008, the first semi-aquatic herbivore mysteriously appeared in Beaver Lake after an extraordinary hiatus. No one knows how it got there, but a second one joined it in 2011. Afterward, the pair had kits.
Find out more about the beaver's return to B.C.'s biggest urban park.
