Posted on 12/30/2022 1:04:49 PM PST by thecodont
The recent discovery of two beavers sighted along Matadero Creek in Palo Alto could be a sign of a major comeback for the species in the Bay Area.
Naturalist Bill Leikam, who is the co-founder and president of the Urban Wildlife Research Project, captured trail camera footage of the semiaquatic rodents wandering along the waterway late last month, as the Mercury News first reported. He set up the cameras after he had been tipped off by a resident who claimed to have seen one while they were meditating on the side of the creek, and sure enough, there they were — a male and a female. Now, Leikam treks along the waterway twice a day to check the cameras and scour the beavers’ new home for signs of their whereabouts, finding clues in the form of paw prints in the mud and tooth marks on ash trees. He’s hopeful the pair could help reestablish the species’ population in the area.
“It’s exciting,” Lekam told the Mercury News. “It’s been 160 years since there [have] been any beavers along any of these creeks. It speaks of the health of the creeks.”
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How do you pronounce ‘69’ in Mandarin?
How do you know this? ;p
Similar to trips to grab that other memorable Michigan collector's item.
Beaver definition: Small fur bearing animal known to devour large quantities of raw meat.
Wei tu chu?
or “tu can chu”.
Hmmm...
Hahahahahahahahahaha! OMG, I haven’t seen that in years!
Must be the Fentanyl in the water.
Ha.
Hey, if they didn’t want us Michiganders to use those names then they shouldn’t have named them that. 😁
Filthy SF politicians will try and extort some kind of license to operate fee from them.
Tee hee.
I suspect cholera is making a “comeback” in the SF Bay area, too.
How has this not been posted yet ?
They were fun to watch in the creek behind our office in Seattle until they dropped a tree on our service manager new pickup.
They were fun to watch in the creek behind our office in Seattle until they dropped a tree on our service manager new pickup.
Good call, perfect! Great song/vid both.
Cast that to the TV/sound bar, now watching/listening to their cover of Devil Went Down to Georgia.
What’s he doing now that Jeffrey Epstein ended up dead (didn’t commit suicide)?
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