Beavers in Europe (1900 vs 2021)
The Eurasian beaver was once widespread in Eurasia, but was hunted to near-extinction for both its fur and castoreum. At the turn of the 20th century, only about 1,200 beavers survived in eight relict populations
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It’s kind of wild about the American beaver being introduced over there. Gonna have to read more about that.
I’m sure it was for the pelt, but when or what it does as an introduced species. Does it outcompete the Eurasian beaver?
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In my reporting did not find people introducing the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) in Europe. Rather, people are reintroducing the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) in the UK and in Europe to places where they'd been extirpated.
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There really should be a trigger warning on such talk. It costs nothing to be a gentleman.
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It was on that day that young Alfalfa learned that the Mail Order Bride industry reflected a need for the Eurasian hemisphere to avoid drowning in pu...
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gizmodo.com/how-to-manipul "..put a speaker nearby, and played the sound of water running over rocks, the beaver would start making things, even though those things typically weren’t dams. Whatever they made, they would always build over the speaker"
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