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1st Beaver spotted in NYC in 200 years
AP via Yahoooooo! ^
| 02/23/07
Posted on 02/23/2007 7:23:50 AM PST by Abathar
NEW YORK - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years until this week.
Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal itself.
"It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably going to see more of them in the future."
Beavers gnawed out a prominent place in the city's early days as a European settlement, attracting fur traders to a nascent Manhattan. The animal appears in the city seal to symbolize a Dutch trading company that factored in the city's colonial beginnings, according to the city's Web site.
But amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Parks & Recreation Department.
The beaver that has made its way to the Bronx appears to be a male, several feet (a meter) long and two or three years old, said Patrick Thomas, the mammals curator at the nearby Bronx Zoo.
Biologists have nicknamed the animal "Jose," as a tribute to U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano (news, bio, voting record)'s work to revive the river. The Bronx Democrat lined up federal money for a cleanup.
"But I don't know to what extent I imagined things living in it again," he said.
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: beavers; brittanyspears
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To: Abathar
It could have showed up on the runway
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OK, get your minds out of the gutter!!!
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:33:43 AM PST
by
MadelineZapeezda
(Madeline Albright ZaPeezda, no doubt about it!)
To: Abathar
"But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here"The R.O.U.S.'s? I don't believe they exist.
To: Abathar
Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal itself. I don't give a dam.
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:34:04 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Froufrou
Surely you mean it's Friday double entendre ping.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:34:28 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: Squawk 8888
Interesting how any serious thread usually only generates a couple of dozen posts, but if the title has the word beaver in it the post counts go up like the speedometer of a sports car.....
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:34:31 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: nevergore
"He's only doing the work American beavers won't do....."
lol/chuckle...I'm not even going to comment on that...
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:35:03 AM PST
by
Towed_Jumper
(I faithfully fart toward Mecca five times a day.)
To: Abathar
Click the image
To: Abathar
"Interesting how any serious thread usually only generates a couple of dozen posts, but if the title has the word beaver in it the post counts go up like the speedometer of a sports car....."
Another lol/chuckle...Hey, Abathar, we may all be conservatives but we're not stupid!
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:36:25 AM PST
by
Towed_Jumper
(I faithfully fart toward Mecca five times a day.)
To: reagan_fanatic
You posted this article just for the humorous responses, didn't you? Funniest headline on FR since this one:
Hubble spots dark spot on Uranus (picture)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1715170/posts
To: Abathar
200 years? How old is this country? I don't believe it.
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:36:52 AM PST
by
Fawn
(LEMME IN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkMIdfwo32Y&eurl=)
To: Ramius
I saw her pics a while back and can assure you that Britney has nothing to do with the beaver.
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:36:54 AM PST
by
kaboom
To: Abathar
"Say what?"
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:37:16 AM PST
by
rightinthemiddle
(Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
To: Abathar
... curses that this thread has forced that Primus song into my head... can't get rid of it.... keeps looping... :)
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:37:36 AM PST
by
Daus
To: MadelineZapeezda
To: Abathar
"Biologists have nicknamed the animal "Jose,"
Awww, isn't that cute?
Why don't you biologists stop trying to personify nature. This is what leads people to playing with bears and getting devoured by them.
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:39:38 AM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: kaboom
Five O'Clock shadow ping!
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:39:40 AM PST
by
pikachu
(Support Global Warming by buying your future beach front property in Denver today!)
To: Abathar
200 years, huh?
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:40:01 AM PST
by
rightinthemiddle
(Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
To: Abathar
Later that day...
To: centurion316
I really needed this article this morning. I am in a much better mood.
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:41:46 AM PST
by
Pheatius
To: MadIvan
;o) No flies on you, Ivan!
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posted on
02/23/2007 7:42:14 AM PST
by
Froufrou
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