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25 Mouth-Watering Things To Eat In Charleston Right Now

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Eat your way through the Holy City.

Is food your *fave* part of traveling?

Is food your *fave* part of traveling?

Same, tbh. And while Charleston, South Carolina probably brings to mind a gorgeous historic district and sunny beaches, it also has a burgeoning food scene full of hidden gems.

We asked the people over at Yelp to weigh in on the most delicious and highly-rated things. So, here's everything you should eat in Charleston:

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The lowcountry shrimp roll with Geechie frites from The Obstinate Daughter:

The lowcountry shrimp roll with Geechie frites from The Obstinate Daughter:

"The Shrimp Roll (think lobster roll with shrimp salad) was simple in the best way. Absolutely delicious, and the ideal portion size. This was served with Geechie frites, which were sort of French toast stick-shaped bars of fried Geechie Boy (local) grits." —Clare S.

"I had the shrimp roll with Geechie frites. The roll was toasted to perfection and was filled with wonderful shrimp. The Geechie frites were so good I ordered another round for the table." —Chris C.

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The brisket from Swig & Swine:

The brisket from Swig & Swine:

"This brisket doesn't need sauce. Seriously legit BBQ! Texans in SC should make sure they try this place." —Chris M.

"A range of barbecue sauces were in front of me, but the brisket didn't need it. Juicy and tender. The only reason I used the knife was to prevent myself from sticking the whole slice of brisket in my mouth." —Stasj T.

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Bone marrow bread pudding from The Macintosh:

Bone marrow bread pudding from The Macintosh:

"If there is anything you do here, anything at all, it MUST be to order the bone marrow bread pudding. It is simply the most decadent, rich, creamy, heavenly, divine thing you may ever eat." —Dianna S.

"The marrow bread pudding!!! Never thought a meat marshmallow would my favorite thing on a menu, but this is it." —Kari H.

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18 Tumblr Posts About Growing Up South Asian That Are Way Too Real

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“Put some haldi on it” – the solution for everything, ever.

Your relatives being really damn good at rhyming.

Being asked this question.

Being asked this question.

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Having loads of people you apparently resemble.

Having to put a week of your life aside when anyone gets married.


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Can You Get More Than 15/20 On This Periodic Table Quiz?

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15 Things Only A Second Generation Latina Mom Understands

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Your family pops in…for long periods of time.

When you shout out things in Spanish at your kids that you would never say in English. "¡Cállate!"

When you shout out things in Spanish at your kids that you would never say in English. "¡Cállate!"

Somehow it just doesn't sound as bad when it's said in Spanish.

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Even though your parents didn’t teach you Spanish, your children must be bilingual.

Even though your parents didn’t teach you Spanish, your children must be bilingual.

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And even if you don't speak Spanish, it doesn't make you any less of a Latina mom.

And even if you don't speak Spanish, it doesn't make you any less of a Latina mom.

Speaking Spanish at home is a wonderful gift to give your children, but not everyone does. And it doesn't mean you're not working hard to make a good life for your kids.

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Having to stop yourself from punching someone when they ask if you or your mom is the nanny.

Having to stop yourself from punching someone when they ask if you or your mom is the nanny.

Really?

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Every Major "Game Of Thrones" Death So Far, Ranked By Heartbreak

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All men must cry.

For everyone who isn't up to date with Season 6 yet, this post obviously contains spoilers, so look away now.

For everyone who isn't up to date with Season 6 yet, this post obviously contains spoilers, so look away now.

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Jon Arryn

Jon Arryn

Manner of death: Poisoned by his wife, Lysa, on Littlefinger's orders.

Oh, Jon Arryn, we hardly knew ye.

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Ser Meryn Trant

Ser Meryn Trant

Manner of death: Stabbed to fuck by Arya Stark.

Meryn, you were a massive dickhead, and watching you get repeatedly stabbed in the eyes by Arya was one of the most satisfying moments of this goddamn show. You will not be missed.

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Olive Garden Launches Spaghetti Pie, Just In Time For Summer

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When Olive Garden sales were slumping in 2014, activist investor Starboard Value delivered some harsh criticisms in a presentation: "Olive Garden currently uses inauthentic Italian ingredients, serves dishes that would be unacceptable in Italy, and does not promote wine with meals."

The menu had veered "astonishingly far from authentic Italian culture" with "burgers & fries, Spanish tapas, heavy cream sauces, more fried foods, stuffed cheeses, soggy pasta, and bland tomato sauce." To get out of this rut, Starboard said, "Olive Garden must embrace its Italian roots."

Investors agreed. Starboard took over the board of Olive Garden's parent company, and thus began a transformation of sorts for the Italian chain.

But the revamp didn't exactly come in the form of a hyper-traditional Italian restaurant. Instead, Olive Garden has focused on dishes that "capitalize on our iconic brand equity" and offer "craveable Italian comfort food" with a twist, Executive Chef Jim Nuetzi told BuzzFeed News.

In 2015, that meant going all in on breadsticks — and not just any breadsticks. The chain launched two breadstick bun sandwiches last year — meatball and chicken — which became the chain's most successful menu introduction since it first offered a soup, salad, and breadsticks combo over 25 years ago, according to Nuetzi.

Now it's doubling down on those kinds of dishes, launching two more breadstick sandwiches and two varieties of spaghetti pie. Yes, spaghetti pie.

The pies will come in Meatball Deep Dish and Chicken Alfredo versions, and both use spaghetti, plastered into pie form by seven cheeses and baked with bacon.

The dense pies — which are two parts spaghetti to one part cheese — are available through July. As strange as it may seem, Nuetzi said spaghetti pie is actually a traditional Italian dish, typically made of "the components of two or three leftover meals mixed together, tossed with spaghetti, and baked in a flaky pie crust."

Guests appear to appreciate Olive Garden's specific kind of reinvention. Same restaurant sales last quarter were up 6.8%, and traffic was up 3%.

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BuzzFeed News got a look at the new breadstick sandwiches today. And a taste of them. Many tastes.

The Eggplant Parmigiana breadstick sandwich.

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The Spicy Calabrian chicken breadstick sandwich.

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It's Olive Garden's same garlicy-salty-oily breadstick bun, but with new, breaded and fried fillings. The chicken sandwich uses calabrian chili sauce, and is medium spicy. The eggplant parm option makes breadstick sandwiches accessible to vegetarians.

Both recipes were developed last year when Olive Garden first debuted breadstick sandwiches, and the chain of more than 800 restaurants is so confident that consumers will like them that it didn't even test — an unusual move for a company of its size.

And now as consumer interest in pasta rebounds, spaghetti pies are entering the picture.

Spaghetti, Nuetzi said, is by far the chain's most popular pasta. The chain sold more than 29 million servings of the stringy pasta in 2015. "We said, 'Look at how much spaghetti we sell.' That's a core equity."

Here are the pies in real life (right), compared with Olive Garden’s promotional photo (left):

Here are the pies in real life (right), compared with Olive Garden’s promotional photo (left):

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This is what the Meatball Deep Dish pie looks like up close.

This is what the Meatball Deep Dish pie looks like up close.

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Nuetzi said the culinary team is always asking "how are we going to rethink pasta and how our guests eat it."

So what's next? Nuetzi said a lobster ravioli launch last year went very well, and the team now is looking at different ravioli shapes and sizes. He said he hopes to deliver something "that's not what they imagined."

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These Three Movies Are Your New Problematic Faves

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Elle Fanning in The Neon Demon.

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The Neon Demon opens with a gorgeous, disturbing shot of Elle Fanning posing like a high-fashion murder mannequin, selling sex and violence as if the two have interchangeable appeal — her face covered in gem decals and her body in blood as she's sprawled over a chaise like she's just had her throat slit. The Handmaiden is a lesbian romance whose main characters control the narrative except when they have sumptuously filmed intercourse, at which point the perspective retreats to the ideal distance from which to leer as they 69. And Elle starts with its heroine getting raped, and then becomes a revenge story of sorts, but not before the victim forms a relationship with her attacker that should launch a million fiery think pieces.

Behold the problematic faves of this year's Cannes Film Festival — movies that are deftly made, headily stylish, and cracklingly clever, and that nevertheless require a "but..." But it's about a character who sleeps with her rapist. But it's incredibly male-gaze-y. But it's populated with women who literally devour each other while trying to be the fairest one of all.

Cannes has been home to plenty of controversial and outrageous movies. Just last year, Gaspar Noé offered formalwear-clad audiences unsimulated sex and an ejaculation right at the camera, all in 3D. But The Neon Demon, The Handmaiden, and Elle aren't controversial, not in bomb-throwing ways that aim to make people walk out of the theater. Their asterisks are as worth exploring as all the things they do well.

The Neon Demon.

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Take The Neon Demon, the latest from Drive's Nicolas Winding Refn, a director who wears his many fetishes on his sleeve, and who's consumed with highly stylized, electro-scored fables about anguished men. This new one is actually about a woman, or rather a teenage girl named Jesse (Fanning), who was orphaned at 16 and has newly arrived in a dreamlike L.A., with aims of making it big in modeling. She has drifted into a dark industry comedy by way of Dario Argento, a syrupy world where identically long-legged women strut in lingerie for higher-ups who evaluate them with the cool eyes of a gambler considering horseflesh, and where women are also regularly criticized or fired in front of rooms full of people — just business, you know. But Jesse is different as she strolls into agency representation, a shoot with famous photographers, and a gig with an established designer. Everyone looks at Jesse with a hunger that's not quite lust, as if yearning to suck the dewy youth, the newness out of her bones.

The Neon Demon is a toxic fairy tale, but Refn is too in love with its toxicity for anything as prosaic as a critique. Everyone in it has been warped, like cutthroat models Sarah (Abbey Lee) and Gigi (Bella Heathcote), who've internalized the brisk cruelty of the industry rather than built up defenses against it, interested only in attacking rivals rather than uniting against the people treating them as discardable.

The movie is a bloody-mawed catfight on hallucinogens, but the visual splendor doesn't change the fact that the film barely has characters. Instead, it has shadow figures in the dark, like Jena Malone's motherly-predatory makeup artist Ruby, or Desmond Harrington's aloof-predatory photog Jack, or Keanu Reeves, who's much fun as the sleazy-predatory owner of the motel in which Jesse stays. Jesse herself is an enigma, green but aware of and ever more confident in her own power. Refn creates a seductively surreal version of hyper-competitive showbiz, but he can't get inside his heroine's head and find the emotional core that his teary men always have, no matter how heightened their environments. It's not the sexualized violence or the woman-on-woman viciousness that's the film's weakness — it's the distance.

Kim Min-hee and Kim Tae-ri in The Handmaiden.

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The Handmaiden has no trouble getting inside its main characters' heads. The film, directed by Oldboy provocateur Park Chan-wook, spends most of its runtime there, with Sook-hee (Kim Tae Ri) and Hideko (Kim Min-hee) narrating large sections from their own distinctively prickly points of view. Sook-hee is a thief masquerading as a meek lady's maid in order to help a con man in his scheme to marry a rich noblewoman. That noblewoman would be Hideko, who looks like a porcelain doll but who's harboring some very dark depths. Most of the movie is set in the labyrinthine of the half-British, half-Japanese mansion in which Hideko lives with her uncle, observing as desire builds between the two women, simmering over baths and scenes of one dressing the other.

The Handmaiden is based on Sarah Waters' 2002 novel Fingersmith, with the action transposed from Victorian England to Japan-occupied Korea in the 1930s. Fans of the book will likely find the film maddening in how it whips between being guided by its characters' growing attachment and gawking at it. It's not the sex itself, it's the way it's filmed, like it's an act the characters are performing for the camera rather than each other — one late explicit scene is the most hilariously gratuitous part of a largely unnecessary coda.

But The Handmaiden is sexy and twisty and so compelling despite this, lodging itself in the points of view of two women who are constantly underestimated by the men around them, and who learn to take advantage of how they're misjudged. With intrigue that includes the staged reading of erotica, you could argue that Sook-hee and Hideko end up reclaiming acts originally described for the enjoyment of men for themselves — if the enjoyment of men didn't seem so important in how they're portrayed.

Isabelle Huppert in Elle.

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The heroine of Elle, however, has no patience whatsoever for those who'd underestimate her. Her name is Michelle (played by the ferocious Isabelle Huppert) and she is the witheringly, fabulously unsentimental CEO of a video game company. Elle — which is directed by returnee from Hollywood Paul Verhoeven (of Total Recall, Showgirls and, more recently, Black Book) — is essentially a startlingly enjoyable character study with an extraordinarily difficult starting point. It opens with Michelle getting raped by a man in a ski mask who broke into her house, and who leaves her, bleeding, on the floor. Rather than call the cops, with whom she has a bad history, she cleans herself up, orders delivery, has her doofus son over for dinner, all the while turning the experience over in her mind, indulging in fantasies in which she beats her attacker's head in with an ashtray.

The assault isn't dismissed or made light of, despite Michelle's cool customer display. Rather, it's how Elle introduces itself as a film about what happens when you don't have the reactions people consider to be normal, an aspect of Michelle's life since she was a child. She isn't dead inside or unaffected, she simply has no interest in fitting herself to others' expectations of appropriate behavior — something that's also true in regard to her son's disastrous relationship, her elderly mother's disastrous relationship, as well as the programmers at her company who loathe and fear her. Unsure of how to tell those closest to her about what happened, she shruggingly informs them over dinner, and the way their shocked silence is interrupted by the waiter popping champagne is the kind of dark joke Elle specializes in.

The dearth of fucks Michelle has to give about the feelings of others is a sort of superpower, and Huppert's desert-worthy aridness and impeccable timing make this character one of her most enjoyable roles. Elle stumbles, but doesn't quite fumble the ball, when Michelle figures out the identity of her attacker, and makes some decisions that aren't unconventional so much as opaque. There's a difference between psychological complexity and having your otherwise smart cookie of a main character do things that put herself in danger, and Elle wades into territory in which the two get muddied.

The Neon Demon, The Handmaiden, and Elle are, after all, movies from button-pushing directors whose aims aren't always precise, even if their filmmaking is superbly on point. And I had the most fun arguing over Elle at this year's festival, an event that sometimes felt like it uses its art-for-art's-sake standing as a shield against such conversations. Movies don't exist in a vacuum, even at Cannes, but discussing their flaws also shouldn't mean they're dismissed.

Can You Pick The Most Obnoxious Hipster?

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One of these hipsters is the absolute worst, and a few of them are pretty cool. But who?

This Guy Was Kicked Out Of An Ice Cream Parlor After Telling Two Muslim Women "I Don't Want Them Near My Country"

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“When you just trying to eat your ice cream but trump supporters won’t let you live.”

The video had more 8,000 retweets and 8,000 likes by Tuesday evening. The incident took place when Takkish and her friend in the video, Malaak Ammari, went with another friend to Andrews Ice Cream and Desserts in Orange, California.

Ammari, 21, told BuzzFeed News that the man was being very loud and rude to the staff while demanding a phone charger.

She said that one of the employees, who escorted the man out of the place, came up to them and said, "I'm so sorry you had to hear that." Ammari said the employee also told them the man had made some remarks about them — but the employee did not elaborate on what he said.

Ammari said that she when saw the man returning to the ice cream parlor minutes later, she started recording him.

"He was pointing at our table and telling the employees, 'You refused to serve me because you were serving them,'" Ammari said. "He assumed we're not Americans and that he deserved to be treated better."

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15 Reasons Why Christopher Pike Was The Best YA Horror Author Ever

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SEXY LIZARD TEENS.

Let's face it: R.L. Stine usually gets all the glory when it comes to YA horror of the 1990s. After all, everybody and their dog read Goosebumps in their youth.

Let's face it: R.L. Stine usually gets all the glory when it comes to YA horror of the 1990s. After all, everybody and their dog read Goosebumps in their youth.

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Or, if you were a little bit older, you probably ditched Goosebumps and read Fear Street instead.

Or, if you were a little bit older, you probably ditched Goosebumps and read Fear Street instead.

And why not? They were scary as hell.

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But let us not forget that some of the best YA horror of the '90s also came from none other than Christopher Pike.

But let us not forget that some of the best YA horror of the '90s also came from none other than Christopher Pike.

(And yes, the "Christopher Pike" pen name comes from the Star Trek character.)

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Pike's novels felt like they were for the slightly more ~mature~ YA reader, because they frequently included references to people (gasp!) having sex and doing drugs. The books were also, without a doubt, COMPLETELY BONKERS (in the best way).

Pike's novels felt like they were for the slightly more ~mature~ YA reader, because they frequently included references to people (gasp!) having sex and doing drugs. The books were also, without a doubt, COMPLETELY BONKERS (in the best way).

And Pike often doesn't get the credit he deserves.

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18 Types Of Friends You Make As A Parent

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Your social life was never like this before kids.

The friend who brings the party.

The friend who brings the party.

They supply wine at playdates and are always scheming to convince you to take a kid-free weekend to Vegas. They're a little crazy but fun — in small doses.

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The friend you can talk to with total honesty about your parent life.

The friend you can talk to with total honesty about your parent life.

You know they won't judge you or your kid if you drop the pretense of being a perfect parent, so you share everything including the epically embarrassing tantrums at Target and bouts of lice.

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The hot mess friend.

The hot mess friend.

They're always late, lost or forgetting something, but they have a big heart and — let's be honest — make you feel pretty good about your own parenting.

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The playdate friend.

The playdate friend.

You met them at the park and hit it off after your kid swiped their kid's toy. You now have a regular playdate there and pretty much run the place.

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Stephen A. Smith Is Sorry For Doubting The Greatness Of The Raptors

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Not sorry you’re sorry, Stephen.

Gather your angst and prepare for a very satisfying "I told you so," Canada. Stephen A. Smith has officially apologized to us for doubting the Raptors.

Gather your angst and prepare for a very satisfying "I told you so," Canada. Stephen A. Smith has officially apologized to us for doubting the Raptors.

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The ESPN commentator — once described as a "cartoonish super-troll" — declared just last week that Canada's only NBA team didn't stand a chance in hell.

The ESPN commentator — once described as a "cartoonish super-troll" — declared just last week that Canada's only NBA team didn't stand a chance in hell.

"We don’t want to engage in just sullying another nation," he said, before doing just that.

"But Canada, it’s over, you’re going to lose this series in 5 at best," he said, adding "this series was over before it began."

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"I can't even put into words how stunned I am, I can't believe what I saw," he said.

"I gotta be a man of my word and just apologize to Canada, all Canadians everywhere."

Then he prattled on about individual players' performances but Canada was too busy MOTHERFUCKIN' CELEBRATING to listen.

Then he prattled on about individual players' performances but Canada was too busy MOTHERFUCKIN' CELEBRATING to listen.

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The Tastiest Game Of Vegetarian "Would You Rather" You'll Ever Play

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You can take away the meat, but it doesn’t make the choices any easier.

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Oh Dam! These Rescued Baby Beavers Will Melt Your Heart

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The rescue centre placed the kits in an incubator, and now bottle feeds them several times a day.

A few weeks ago a group of hunters walked into the Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan, and dropped off four tiny beaver kits who were badly in need of help.

A few weeks ago a group of hunters walked into the Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan, and dropped off four tiny beaver kits who were badly in need of help.

"The kits were in critical condition as they were cold, weak and hungry," Megan Lawrence, the director of rehabilitation for Salthaven, told BuzzFeed Canada. "They were only about two days old upon admission and their umbilical cords were still attached."

The hunters had been in the woods near Fort Qu'Appelle when they came upon a trap with a female beaver in it. The hunters knew her babies would not be able to survive on their own. So they scooped them up and drove to Salthaven in the hope that Lawrence's team could save the little ones.

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"We placed them in an incubator right away to raise their body temperature and then administered electrolyte fluids for rehydration," Lawrence said, adding that the kits are now in great shape.

"We placed them in an incubator right away to raise their body temperature and then administered electrolyte fluids for rehydration," Lawrence said, adding that the kits are now in great shape.

"These are the first beaver kits that we have had here at Salthaven West!" Lawrence said. "However, it is not rare for beavers and beaver kits to be admitted to wildlife rehab centres for various reasons."

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"Beaver kits are fairly social with each other so they spend a lot of time wrestling with each other when they're not sleeping," she said. Beaver wrestling!

"Beaver kits are fairly social with each other so they spend a lot of time wrestling with each other when they're not sleeping," she said. Beaver wrestling!

"We are also introducing them to water and now that they are approximately two weeks old they can go for short supervised swims as this is the age that they would naturally begin swimming with their parents."

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She said they will stay at the centre until they are two years old, as that's the natural age when beavers "venture out to establish their own territory and find a mate."

She said they will stay at the centre until they are two years old, as that's the natural age when beavers "venture out to establish their own territory and find a mate."

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