#beaver

#beaver

Beavers Have the Cutest Little SmilesBeavers are nature's architects, hard-working little creatures who improve the ecosystem and create wetlands just by building their own natural homes. They are wild animals, and are best left to themselves. But beavers sometimes need to be rescued from disasters such as fires, predators, and the loss of parents. Only then do you get a chance to see how adorable they are up close! Bored Panda has collected 30 (actually more) of the cutest pictures of beavers from rescue organizations, wildlife parks, zoos, shelters, and everyday people to show us what they really look like up close. Webbed feet, big teeth, flat tail, and shy little grins- they may be busy, but they look good doing it. Many of the pictures have stories behind them.#beaver

Winter in a Beaver LodgeThe Coastal Watershed Institute surrounded a beaver lodge with cameras to see what they are up to in the middle of winter. They stay pretty busy, constantly reinforcing and repairing their home. They even incorporate the trail camera as part of the lodge! Watch Notch-Tail and Smooth-Tail and their kit doing what beavers do. Yes, the baby beaver we hear at the beginning does appear on camera at about five minutes in.

Beavers Help Stop Wildfires and DroughtBeavers are a unique animal in that they deliberately work to change their environment. They fell trees, thinning out forests. They dam up rivers and creeks with their constructions and create ponds. The environment got along fine with all this, but then people moved in and wanted to alter the land for our own purposes. Beaver were hunted to a fraction their previous numbers, and over decades, the wild land became more crowded, less productive, and less diverse in species.

Beavers Found Living Along the Oregon Coast in Tidal WetlandsIt has been a long-held belief that rodents only live in freshwater. However, new evidence suggests that rodents such as beavers can also live in saltwater, surprising scientists. Just recently, scientists found beavers living along the Central Coast of Oregon. As they surveyed the tidal wetlands (made possible by grant funding), they discovered beaver dams and lodges in areas where beaver presence was not confirmed before. The ecologists hope that this data will help improve human-beaver coexistence. Nearly driven to extinction before, beavers are now slowly making a comeback. (Image Credit: Oregon Zoo/ Michael Durham) #Beaver #Oregon #Saltwater #Habitat

Cute Papa Beaver Clumsily Carries Carrot and Cabbage Back to His FamilyI can make it in one trip, we can imagine Mumu-chan the Beaver muttered to himself as he clumsily carried a carrot and a head of cabbage back to his family. We can also imagine that the papa beaver was not eager in shelling out his hard-earned money on grocery bags, even though the carrot and cabbage were a bit too much to carry all at once.The cute papa beaver, who just turned 10 years old last month, is famous for carrying food back to his family in the Aso Farm Land, a camp and petting zoo in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan.Take a look below for more cute videos of Mumu-chan the Beaver and his daughter Nini-chan waddling and carrying food back to the family's den.#beaver #carrot #cabbage #MumuchanTheBeaver #AsoFarmLand #JapanView the clip below:

The Time Idaho Dealt With Its Surplus Of Beavers By Parachuting Them Into Its BackcountryIn 1948, the residents of McCall, Idaho, were complaining about beavers. The beavers had always been there, it was the people that were new, and they didn't want to share their lakeside paradise. The Idaho Fish and Game Department decided the beavers should be moved, but since most of Idaho was still wilderness at the time, trucking the animals out would be difficult and dangerous. However, in that postwar era, the US government had plenty of surplus parachutes, so why not drop the beavers into their new homes from the air? That's just what they did.