The Beaver
Few animals are able to recover when hunted to near extinction. Most animals never recover their original numbers, but that is not the case with the American Beaver. Once hunted and trapped to near extinction for their valuable furs the beaver has made a comeback to the point of almost over population. Today beavers can be found almost everywhere in North America that you find temperate climates and running water. It is in this habitat that the beaver lives and works tirelessly changing their surroundings to suit the beaver’s needs.
The American Beaver are beefy, aquatic herbivores of the rodent order and the only surviving member of the family Castoridae. Beavers are hefty animals, weighing as much as 88 pounds but averaging between 30 to 60 pounds, with lengths of 3 to 3 ½ feet from nose to tail. These statistics make the beaver the second largest rodent in the world, behind only the capybaras of South America and its 110 pound weight. The most distinctive......

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Title: American Beaver
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