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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: Constitution Day
Read? You mean like the WHOLE article? Who does that??
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posted on
02/23/2007 8:16:13 AM PST
by
Fawn
(LEMME IN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkMIdfwo32Y&eurl=)
To: Abathar
Tomorrow's POST headline:
Beaver Shot in Bronx!........
82
posted on
02/23/2007 8:16:41 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
To: Abathar
Hopefully, there are more to come.
To: Abathar
So that's where Britney went to when she left rehab!!
84
posted on
02/23/2007 8:17:47 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Middle Age: When playing like a child makes you feel like an old man the next morning.)
To: Towed_Jumper
"He's only doing the work American beavers won't do....." lol/chuckle...I'm not even going to comment on that... Do we really need antother thread about the advantages of foreign versus American?
To: pikachu
86
posted on
02/23/2007 8:23:24 AM PST
by
null and void
(Let's play 6° of global warming...)
To: JRios1968
Isn't she shaved? Britney that is.
87
posted on
02/23/2007 8:24:28 AM PST
by
BJClinton
(articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy)
To: beaversmom
Is this your long lost son? :)
88
posted on
02/23/2007 8:26:48 AM PST
by
EveningStar
(Hillary Clinton is Hugo Chavez in a pantsuit - P. J. O'Rourke)
To: Abathar
if the title has the word beaver in it the post counts go up like the speedometer of a sports car
Try putting "nude" and "pictures" in the thread title and you'll have a epic thread.
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posted on
02/23/2007 8:28:14 AM PST
by
BJClinton
(articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy)
To: Abathar
Hey, New York City has the hardest working beavers in show business. At least it did before Rudy showed up and ruined the party. /sarc
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posted on
02/23/2007 8:31:40 AM PST
by
anymouse
To: Fawn
To: BJClinton
I was pretty sure the "Strict" Mod was working today and would have this thread yanked so fast my head would spin, but it does seem to have legs...
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posted on
02/23/2007 8:38:03 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Abathar
Good morning.
I thought Rudi cleaned up Times Square.
Michael Frazier
93
posted on
02/23/2007 8:39:35 AM PST
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: sure_fine
It is relevant! Without Paris Hilton, beaver sightings are much less frequent.
94
posted on
02/23/2007 9:07:48 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: BJClinton
95
posted on
02/23/2007 9:10:50 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: EveningStar
beavers are expanding
96
posted on
02/23/2007 9:11:13 AM PST
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: Xenalyte
LOL! I LOVE those stupid movies!
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posted on
02/23/2007 9:11:19 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: Squawk 8888; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Just dam!
98
posted on
02/23/2007 9:13:27 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("By the way... who is Ben Dayho?" --60Gunner)
To: Abathar
This article can not be true.I saw a lot of beaver there,I just couldn't afford it.
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posted on
02/23/2007 10:45:55 AM PST
by
xarmydog
To: RexBeach
"Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver." "Dear, I only know General Practitioners..."
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posted on
02/23/2007 10:51:08 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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