Beaver Lodge Construction Squad | Attenborough | BBC Earth 

Imagine being born with a civil engineering degree coded to your every cell.

"What are you eating?" "Wood, what are you eating?" "Wood." "Wanna trade?"

The fact that their home is called a lodge is the greatest thing ever.

I had 2 ponds in my back yard where beavers lived. When they dammed up the stream to create new ones, they would dig mud out of the hillside with their hands, pack it on to their flat tails, and transport it like they were pulling a trailer. It was the coolest thing to watch!

I had no idea beavers were so awesome. Imaging gathering some buddies together and terraforming the land with nothing but your bare hands and teeth, and then on your lunch break, you eat a chunk of wood.

I could listen to that man talk forever.

Beaver: Rent? Musk Rats: YOU'LL GET YOUR RENT WHEN YOU FIX THIS DAM DOOR!

Beavers are really incredible animals. They transform landscapes into wetland ecosystems, creating habitat for other species including fish, mammals, waterfowl, songbirds, amphibians, and insects. And help to protect from droughts, improve water quality, and minimize flood risk and mitigate flooding peaks.

I always imagine beavers wearing construction helmets

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*Running water exists* Beaver: 'And i took that personally'

Am I the only one who finds this video super relaxing? The sounds of water and the crunchy sounds of beavers gnawing on wood... So calming!

Someone should make a beaver simulation game. You can build and expand your dam and store food for the winter and charge rent to animals that live there

Bloody people riding a boat in my dam.

I had no idea that these guys were acting like little lumberjacks out there, felling enormous trees-and then turning into full-on architects and engineers. What amazing little industrialists and environmentalists they are!

Beaver life/defense strategy is genius, and also absolutely hilarious

Beaver: "Give me rent." Muskrat: "You'll get your rent when you fix this DAMN DAM."

but honestly, these animals have got to be the most underrated species ever. Shockingly competent for being some strange amphibian sea dog things.

if there was an online stream of beavers working on their dam, my productivity would skyrocket with a 1000%. I get so motivational to just get things done when i see them working hard to maintain the dam

It's fascinating to see just how much intelligence is coded into them, from building dams that can hold massive bodies of water back to creating a lodge adapted for the winter.

Everyone gangsta until beaver cut down fully grown tree

8:03 the little heat vent coming out the top of their house is just the funniest cutest shit ever. It's like they have a lil fireplace going on in there 😂

The most wholesome 10 minutes on youtube. Nature truly is amazing.

Hats off to those who do beaver rescue and rehab. It's harder and more time-consuming than any animal I can think of... like raising kids. Props and gratitude.

I have a lot of respect for beavers now, thank you

Covering the camera was the best 😂😂 “A little privacy please” 🤨

Beavers are SO important for wildlife to thrive. If introduced and used responsibly by us they can transform regions

I was fascinated from start to finish and was smiling too as I watch how the beavers live. This is a true testament of how marvelous nature is.

Beavers: Rent is three tufts of soft grass per day. Muskrat: K

3:43 piece of wood with leaf on it tastes the leaf and then is like "no...not this" then throws it that scene is so cute lol

Here in New Hampshire I go on many hikes and always are astounded when I come across our many beaver dams. Only once did I see them working. Was a place I hadn't been in 2 years. Completely different. EIGHT beavers I counted busy extending their already massive dam. Its mesmerizing and relaxing to watch.

I am obsessed with Beaver!!!🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫

This has to be my favorite animal. Look at the little guys being engineers and entrepreneurs.

I guess the beavers were about to get frisky at the end. Which is why they shrouded the camera.

Water: Flows Beaver: And I took that personally

Unfathomable respect towards these critters. It genuinely awes me how they intuit complex architecture construction, and coordination off of *instinct*. Reshaping the land in such vast and creative ways. I swear, in a world where humans never evolved, these little guys would be on top some day.

A time-lapse video of a beaver team making a dam from start to finish would be awesome!

It’s crazy that beavers cut down giant trees with their face lol

The beaver in the last moment: Alright, alright, that's enough..

Truly intelligent and hard working animals.

the title of this video made me envision a load of beavers building a dam whilst wearing little mini building helmets and rolled by bluprints in their mouths

Documentaries are much more believable when narrated by the British

What a determined hard working marvelous engineer in the wild spectacular

9:37 beaver covered the camera😂

I rewatch this every once in a while because it’s just so beautiful. I truly hope we can keep our planet and animals safe.

It was so cute when the beaver covered the camera at the end

Everytime I watch a nature doco, I always say how much I love the animal in question. Like the symbiotic relationship between the beavers and musk rats. Nature stirs my soul and I couldn't imagine my life without the beauty that surrounds me.

Blows me away how animals can learn this through thousands of generations.

"Mildred and I winter at a beaver lodge every year!" -Muskrat

"Aye yo, we got a leak in the damn" "What ya need Jim? Log? Sticks? Grassy patch?"

Never really looked into Beavers but they are incredible animals.

It's just fascinating to see how they create this unique environment and cozy home for themselves

Imagine them wearing construction hats and screaming "TIIIIIIMMMBEEEEEER" everytime they've successfully cut down trees.

The way they eat is so cute

3:43 so cute when they decide the leaf is not for eating

I've only seen a singular beaver in the wild, watching it swim briefly and chew on trees in it's natural habitat. Sadly it either moved on or was hunted to get rid of it's "threat" to the local trees. In the short time I was allowed to witness it and it's habits, I was and still am extremely grateful. They may seem like big water rats but they are seriously beautiful and complex animals.

Truly Fascinating! Fun fact: The Canadian Beaver will not only let's the muskrat chill in their crib and eat their food, it thanks them for the company and apologizes for the mess

so i was like "cool they can cut branches" and then "OMG they can cut down full grown trees!!"

What a life to have.

Greater than anything I’ve ever built in my life. I’m awestruck

Human: Beaver, can you tell me the secret to how you cut down trees so fast with just your teeth? Beaver: gnaw

the decomposition of organic matter also helps to heat up their cool lodges

This was super cute to watch, love the teamwork of the beavers and muskrats

Nature: trickling water Beaver: and I took that personally

The Muskrat is a way better roommate than the person I’m sharing my condo with right now.

Beaver: Who needs a degree in engineering to build a dam.

natures own Engineers, Builders and Architects. How can you not admire these cute animals 😊

This makes me cry, what have we done to this planet we were blessed to be stewards of.

*A branch is brought from the fridge for the whole family to feed on*

Wow thats pretty DAM cool

Remarkable underrated creatures❤

beaver + river + trees + nice background music and chill tone voice = RELAXING DAY

I want to be a beaver now. What a beautifull and calm life that is

This is so nice . I love how they put a camera in there house but then the beavers didn’t want it so they covered it up.

THis guy is a GREAT NARRATOR, no matter what the subject, you just want to listen to him talk and explain. I wish he could teach Narrator lessons to young people.

This is literally the cutest thing ive ever seen holy shit

the fact that they can build dams with nearly perfect thickness and height, store food below the water for winter, and even charge rent to other species by way of fresh bedding and even disposing old bedding, makes beavers unnaturally skilled animals, its already well established that animals are smart, but few animals are capable of engineering in a large scale, preservation of specific food, and the economics of winter seasons, that kind of skill beats even some working class humans today. (you wonder why i included preservation of food? because beavers know to preserve green wood instead of dried wood, dried wood will rot in the winter if submerged for long periods, whereas green wood remains soft and supple during this time, this also prevents parasites from leeching into the wood and allows the beavers to access their storage even in the harshest of winters.)

I don’t know why by I kinda laugh at 3:45 when the beaver mistakenly nibble a yellow leaf and realized it was a “leaf”, not his taste so he threw it away 🤣 It was like, “Finally, wood! No, not you leaf! Shooo!”

Beavers are awesome. Beavers are the second largest rodents in the world after capybaras. Beavers are also known for the cool dams and lodges they create out of trees they chew down and mud and twigs and sticks. Beavers can also create ponds using their dams that other animals like river otters, frogs, toads, geese, swans, large-mouth bass, sunfish and moose and deer plus wolves can live in and near.

One of my favorite animals and with his voice 🥺🥰

Koala be like "bro just climb the tree"

An experiment was conducted where a speaker playing the sound of water trickling was set up in an area with beavers and a few hours later they had started covering it up, trying to stop the water trickling.

Have loved beavers ever since seeing an old Disney documentary on them when I was a kid. Marvelous engineers!

I love beavers, I love watching them

I grew up on a farm in Virginia, we had a lake on it, big one, about 1000x700 yards, built by beavers in the 1860s until today! The dam itself is so well built you can drive a tractor over it.

that dam seem safe and comfy...

Beavers are one of the coolest and most fascinating animal species. Their ingenuity is astounding

They’re the little architects of the forest lol

Imagine inventing hydrogical engineering before you even discover stone tools or fire. These guys are playing on advanced mode

Very intelligent and adorable.

The world needs 250 million more beavers!

The muskrats swim while carrying the bedding is the cutest thing I've ever seen

What an ingenious way of getting to stay in another animal's home: paying rent. Unbelievable.

Beautiful, amazing creatures. Truly astonishing.

The greatest and most aspirational symbol for Canada. Working the challenging environment to our benefit, forming close families, accomodating newcomers, harming no one (do note the key word "aspirational"). Bears and caribou and geese🤮 cannot compete!

Beavers have got to be one of the coolest animals on our planet.

Its amazing how competent they are. Nature is incredible. Edit-this is not a nature vs nurture or evolution vs creationism comment. They are animals that go hard in terms of their creative capacities. That is what I was trying to intimate.

Oh Attenborough, what are we gonna do when you're gone?

I love when the beaver builds a dam.

I TRULY LOVE nature and all she has to offer!