A List Of Some Beaver Facts:

A list of some beaver facts:

1. There are currently only two species of beaver: the North American beaver and Eurasion beaver. However, there's an extinct genus of beaver that existed during the ice age called the giant beaver and they could get as big as a black bear.

2. Some Eurasian beavers have been found to hold sticks and jump up and down (stick display) to communicate to and warn others about territory boundaries.

3. The basic social unit for beavers is a family consisting of the parents and several children and they live in and maintain lodges made out of logs. One family can maintain one or more lodges in their dam.

4. The entrance to a beaver lodge is underwater and is made by the beavers chewing tunnels into the bottom of their lodges. The inside of the lodge is elevated above the water. Oftentimes,the lodges will have to platforms—one for eating and grooming and one for sleeping.

5. Not only do beavers chew down trees for their dams and lodges, but they can also eat the inner tree bark and twigs.

6. Beavers will build and repair dams when they hear running water. Researchers proved this by playing recordings of running water to beavers.

Love that one of the America's most important keystone species is a fucked up rat with anxiety

(Beavers are the world's second largest rodent and I could probably talk abt then all day)