Beaver's Return

I watched a video on the New York Times website about beavers returning to New York City after 200 years. I wasn't terribly interested in it, mostly because it could have easily been a slide show. The only thing that the video really added was some footage (not captured by the Times reporters) of a beaver swimming in the Bronx river. Everything else was an attempt to make what would have been just as effective as a photograph a video shot by panning down the river or up a gnawed on log. A lot of the report was made up of still images, such as a picture of an old Congressman, the New York Seal, and heat images of the beaver's dam. There was also an interview involved, with the Bronx river as a backdrop, but I didn't really need to watch the man talk. Seeing a picture of his face and then having his voice play over the other images would have been enough for me. I think the reporters probably wanted to include the footage of the beaver swimming so much that they made the whole thing a video, but they should have gotten more beaver footage of their own or found a more interesting, video-friendly angle to add to the story.