I mean yeah if your entire survival strategy revolved around cutting trees you'd probably want to be aware of the fact that trees fall down at some point.
He didn't run directly in the path, it scooted diagonal under it falling to get in the water to the right of it...probably placing himself ready to do some cleanup in the water and use the water to pull the log in
Beavers are so underrated. They drop trees, dam up rivers to fish in the ponds and build homes inside the dams. How many other animals could ever do that?
@@VengefulPolititron the only animals above animals are other animals. Birds and insects when we’re on the ground and then us again as we fly over them in planes & helicopters
It is similar to how I treated my ex wife. You nibble here and there, and see if she is either going to complain or complain. Either way, its a dangerous job.
I was thinking lastnight about how deeply I respect animals that live in the wild. Some of them have such small, fragile bodies & yet they manage to survive through the harshest weather conditions and I think that's remarkable.
@russellking9762 ...Unfortunately. they are very misunderstood, and many states here in the US classify them as a nuisance species. They have unbelievable social skills, they mate for life and form families. They have down under their fur, they have an oil gland and groom themselves to stay waterproof. They have orange teeth because of the iron content. Yet they're a nuisance. But the power plant or the plastics factory down the road isn't.
@@georgeb9189 It's really absurd how many different animals are heavily misunderstood in the US. Raccoons, Squirrels, and Opposums are also pretty beneficial to our ecosystem too.
@@georgeb9189I live in WNY. By the lake theres a nature preserve where you can sometimes see these guys. There's stumps and half cut trees all over the park, amazing how large of trees they can take down
I recall seeing a video where young beavers "apprentice" under their fathers to learn how to build dams. They do build dams instinctively, but there is a cultural component apparently that may have been passed down for many generations. Perhaps beavers will rediscover techniques like you mention, but this teaching from father (perhaps mother beavers teach also) hastens the process so that a young beaver will be more successful with parents than without. I have seen videos where mother cats very clearly teach their kittens things -- in one, the mother cat taps its kitten on the should when its attention wanders. Much more going on upstairs with animals than many give them credit for.
@@animalntelligence3170having trained a German shepherd puppy and then getting another after training the first, the first dog trained the new puppy with me.
@@ACDZ123 I've worked in logging for 15 years. Smaller trees don't make quite as loud of a crash like big ones, but depending on the size of the tree and the lay of the land (as far as hills, gullies, canyons etc. that can potentially block OR enhance sound travel) you can definitely hear them hit the ground, especially in the night time when sound seems to be louder. Kind of a similar type of thing to how sound seems louder on a snowy day. Over the years in the woods I've noticed I can frequently hear much smaller trees than you would think you would be able to hear hitting the ground, you can hear the landing crew talking up above on the hill but they can't hear you even with all the equipment shut off, etc. There's many varying situations that effect how you hear sounds.
True masters of their trade. And so friggin cute too! True story... was in the pineys of south Jersey, for about 20 minutes picking up a friend who tubed down a river, came back and saw that a beaver was in the process of felling a tree not 2 feet from my truck, and had almost chewed through a 30 foot pine tree, which, and I imagine if I had probably been 10 minutes later it would have landed right on top of my pick up. I could tell which way it was going to come down. This was no coincidence. He/she ran off as I walked up. I remember thinking that it knew exactly what it was doing too. Had a sense of hunor, or some kind of environmental stance on the matter, and didnt like my truck being there. Their ability to chew through wood with such speed and accuracy never ceases to amaze me.
LOL, you parked in it's spot. We were cat fishing on an old boat ramp one night like 20 years ago. I guess we had set up too close for comfort or where the beaver wanted to come out. He did laps for a half hour. (knocking our poles down a couple times) Finally he came out, and spent 10 minutes chattering his teeth and approaching us slowly. My girlfriend was getting scared. Then the little fart came over by our lantern, it cast the most evil looking spikey backed 15 feet tall shadow I ever saw. I swear it knew it. It stood there for fifteen minutes going between grooming and clacking it's teeth. Everytime my girlfriend would whine, it would react and make the evil shadow more spikey. He'd throw his little paws in a swiping motion perfectly in line to make the shadow demon. It knew what it was doing with the shadow. I was laughing, she was scared, which got me in trouble. 😂
Beavers are very selective when it comes to pickup trucks , for some reason they prefer Fords over any other brands . This information came after a exhaustive 10 year study from Kean University to help determine what pickup trucks beavers 🦫 liked the least . Go figure :-)
Fantastic! It's good that in the midst of so much useless garbage sometimes a super video appears that is worth watching! Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Brazil.
I live in the middle of a large metropolis, near a modest but important and historical creek where I often walk my dog. Beavers are clearly thriving, and you see evidence of them by dozens of downed trees. Amazing to see in the middle of 5 million people.
There are many stories that indicate beavers are really intelligent -- it is clear that building dams and, in particular, felling trees takes a lot of skill. While instinct probably plays a role, I have also read that they learn from their fathers. How they convey to their young how to gnaw a tree so that it falls where they want it, how to avoid being in the way of the falling trees is an interesting question. There is the famous story of a speaker playing the sound of flowing water which they want to stop when they build dans -- the beaver was able to figure out that the sounds were "fake" and just disabled the speaker by driving a pieces of wood into it. I think teaching beavers to use word buttons as has been done with dogs and cats might tell us some amazing things, they might describe for us how they perform some of their sophisticated engineering. I doubt if the average human could easily make dams as they do, with their underwater entrances, etc.
@@Mr1987Joe I would say that while a wolf would be better at surviving in the wild, a dog would understand human language better. Not due to experience but because they have been bred for this -- a dog can understand finger pointing but iirc a wolf can't. My big question is, just how intelligent whales are. I think it is not impossible that their processing power and memories are far beyond the abilities of humans.
There are different kinds of intelligence. Just because an animal figures out how to cut trees doesn't mean it needs language. Also, it's really patronizing when people assume that other animals are automatons. There's so much evidence it's not true.
When I was young I've always thought animals don't have intelligence and are merely reactionary. After I learn more and more about animals I found that is far from the truth. However, it makes me question the significance of human intelligence. Maybe our brain not so special after all, now that a machine purely trained on text can resemble similar intelligence. Intelligence itself is probably overrated.
BUT you have to have two things for a sound to be heard - the tree falling has to make the sound waves, but some ear has to be there to translate the sound waves from energy waves to something heard. So, no, if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, there is no actual sound - only waves of energy.
Oh, so we redefine sound as “energy waves”. So you are saying light also = sound and the warmth of a curry fart spreading gently through an intellectual’s pants is also light because energy waves. It’s all vibrations man, peace man, like what if we’re all made of farts my friend, wow, all united people together just a big fart man Get off the internet Hippy
until i saw this i never understood how they survived the felling. this is fantastic video, and you have great talent for getting this. i have seen small stuff chewed by them but never a tree, thanks for posting
when the camera cuts: the beaver puts on a yellow hardhat, brings a diesel-powered generator, plugs a chainsaw twice his size into it, and carves a little dome into said tree 😂
According to researchers at University of Arizona, beavers sometimes get killed felling trees. This happened when their heads get pinched by the upper part of the trunk sliding down on the lower part, a common result of a cut that is too even in height and depth.
My Beaver tells me when to go fishing. If it's sleeping on its right side, I go and fish off the right bank. If it's sleeping on the left side, I go and fish off the left bank. If it's sleeping on it's back? I don't go fishing...
I love beavers. Beavers are one of the few mammals that never stop growing. They have powerful incisors which are sharpened every time they chomp down trees or nibble on wood.
We have them here, and they slap their tails on the water sometimes, which freaks me out sometimes when I'm at the lake a nighttime and can't see...lol.
The Beaver knows when the tree is ready to fall . He feels the movement of the tree cut and then stops peeling the wood off and steeps back . Waiting for the tree to start cracking and starts falling . The he just steps to the side of the fall . The Beaver also knows about where he or she want to fall . What I dont really understand about Beavers they can tell from the tree where the tree wants to fall and the beaver could work around that . Another thing about Beavers that they know how to chissle away of a tree so when a tree falls their is no ckick back of the trunk . Amazing
AWESOME VIDEO there.....love to watch America's "backwoods" LUMBER-JACKS in action.....thanks for posting. Can't see enough of these awesome videos of these amazing workers in action!
Bonjour 🐕 . Formidable comme ce Castor arrive à couper un arbre ,il connaît m'aime l’endroit où il va tomber. Les Animaux ont beaucoup à nous apprendre. Longue journée vie à tous les Animaux 🐕 🐕 🐕
Winona's got herself a big brown beaver And she shows if off to all of her friends One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her So she caged him up with a cyclone fence
1) Do beaver cut down trees only close to a stream, or they also cut down trees away from the stream? 2) Do beavers chip at the bark at an angle such that the tree falls straight across the stream?
See, God even created beavers to show us His glory & people still don’t see it. The intelligence, strength, persistence, engineering abilities, on & on. You are awesome God 🙌🥲
