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Beaver Lodge Construction Squad | Attenborough | BBC Earth

The American beaver’s ability to nibble wood demonstrates the stunning adaptability of these amazing mammals. In addition to creating their own lake, this family of beavers construct a make-shift fridge and winter-time snug. Subscribe:

From the BBC’s Life of Mammals documentary series.

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38 COMMENTS

  1. Tolle Doku. Aber Biber sind Nachtaktiv, wieso wurden alle Aufnahmen am Tag gemacht? Ich habe bei uns noch nie einen am Tag gesehen, leider..

  2. the fact that they can build dams with nearly perfect thickness and height, store food below the water for winter, and even charge rent to other species by way of fresh bedding and even disposing old bedding, makes beavers unnaturally skilled animals, its already well established that animals are smart, but few animals are capable of engineering in a large scale, preservation of specific food, and the economics of winter seasons, that kind of skill beats even some working class humans today.

    (you wonder why i included preservation of food? because beavers know to preserve green wood instead of dried wood, dried wood will rot in the winter if submerged for long periods, whereas green wood remains soft and supple during this time, this also prevents parasites from leeching into the wood and allows the beavers to access their storage even in the harshest of winters.)

  3. Here in New Hampshire I go on many hikes and always are astounded when I come across our many beaver dams. Only once did I see them working. Was a place I hadn't been in 2 years. Completely different. EIGHT beavers I counted busy extending their already massive dam. Its mesmerizing and relaxing to watch.

  4. I hate that they fake scenes in nature documentaries. They didnt show the beaver in the frame when the tree fell down. The crew probably just cut it down and filmed it, so they didn’t have to wait days for the beaver to cut it down.

  5. I had no idea beavers were so awesome. Imaging gathering some buddies together and terraforming the land with nothing but your bare hands and teeth, and then on your lunch break, you eat a chunk of wood.

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