Britain's first wild beaver for 500 years caught on camera

express.co.uk ^ | January 21, 2014 | Dion Dassanayake

[tomkat]

Was gonna tell y'all that when I was at Penn State, my apartment was on the corner of Beaver & Pugh.

Seriesly .. but no one would've believed it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Is it safe to open that link or should I refrain or use bleach as an eye wash after?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Mozarky, you are too late! Someone beat you to opening a store over on Beaver Lake!

[skinkinthegrass]

watch out for Helen Thomas photo..
positively frightening. ;-)

[skinkinthegrass]

looks puzzled, "why am I here?"

[GladesGuru]

My last taxonomy course was long ago, but is the Eurasian Beaver related to the Pubic Hare?

[elkfersupper]

Search "Fake Taxi"

Britain has lots of wild beavers.

[Slings and Arrows]

> looks puzzled, “why am I here?”

Pretty standard guinea pig expression, you betcha.

[skinkinthegrass]

in Peru, meal (one person :) on four little legs/in a bowl.

[PLMerite]

“It may be one that’s just passing through from somewhere else - it might be an escapee, but nobody seems to be saying they’ve lost a beaver.”

You should have seen the beaver that got away!

[CodeToad]

Princess Di wad no lady. Quite the wild beaver.

[knarf]

What a waste of perfectly good popcorn ... sighhh

[knarf]

I went all the way to #90 before I realized ... everyone is lame, scared or dead.

[lonevoice]

Many years ago when I was hiking alone in a rural area NE of San Diego I came across the (then) extinct black-footed ferret. He sat up on his haunches, took one startled look at me, and promptly fell over in a dead faint. Or so I thought. After playing possum for 10-15 seconds he sprang to his feet and bolted for the cover of sage brush in the blink of an eye. Years later, the black-footed ferret was taken off the extinct list because someone’s dog carried home a dead one.

Four or five years ago, a friend of mine was out snow-shoeing in a very remote part of Northern Idaho when he ran across a wolverine - an endangered species whose movements and locations are meticulously documented and closely monitored. There isn’t supposed to be a single wolverine where my friend was, yet there it was.

[Lady Jag]

Who could've known they would become athletic behemoths!




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[Beowulf9]

Maybe they have been seen but no one has know it was important to report them? Or maybe the non-sightings for 500 years is wrong?

[Rebelbase]

Beavers breeding like rats there due to being an invasive species with no natural predators.

[Rebelbase]

Turbo at #8 referenced it.

[knarf]

reference ain't the pic (which was the implied expectation)

Additionally ... this thread has been relatively lame considering the potential with only one mod zot.

[Noob1999]

How about the north of Detroit exit # 69, Beaver