Beaver Quickly Falls Tree and has a Lunch Break  

They wait for cracking sound😊very smart.

I think you made the same comment on a similar vid. So I'll repeat: sometimes beavers get smoked by the trees they fell. This little guy ran in the exact direction that the tree came down... into the water mind you, but not the most "intelligent" decision IMO. (From a guy who has multiple beavers on his land and gratefully accepts their offerings of firewood.)

​@@civildiscourse2000true. who knows. maybe in the future beaver will adapt or even evolve a way to avoid falling trees 100% effectively. or at least very high. if the world lasts that long

@@Mothobius Undoubtedly beavers do less damage to themselves than humans do to beavers _or_ ourselves. They create habitat for many other species while we destroy habitat and drive many species to extinction. So while they do occasionally run afoul of their own engineering efforts, I think humans are the absolute champions of clever self-destruction.

@@civildiscourse2000 yeah. And some ways aren't even clever. Humans can be straight up idiots

They’ve been cutting down trees for 10s of millions of years.

I didn't know this either until just now! I also learned that they favor specific trees for eating and others for building dams. They often prefer to eat things like aspen and poplar but fall the softwood of pine and other conifers to build dams.

​​​@@_mycotrophRight on. We have poplar aka trembling aspen and various conifers and mainly if they fell the latter it's by chewing up the roots. They like the soft bits of course - you'll never see a beaver fell anything bigger than a sapling and eat the whole thing. Leaves, twigs, branches and the soft growing layer just under the bark of larger branches and the trunk.

Keep the trees away from this sick FREAK!

Because animals don’t evolve the way you thought lizards turning to humans would be

They just eat the bark not the wood inside

The fact I just saw a post you made and then flipped to a random beaver video and saw your comment is oddly coincidental.

@@PrevailingFreedomsame tbh 😂

Does not count, it was observed

@@Riley-wc7bw well heck.

Don't want to rain on your joke, but a woodchuck is an entirely different animal of course. (I have both... and muskrats too.)

@@civildiscourse2000 I did not know that thanks, and what do you mean have lol do you keep them as pets?

@@isaac-vb1ng Kind of. We don't interact with the beavers too much but there's usually a female woodchuck that takes up residence in our yard and pops out a litter every year. The little ones are hilarious to watch rolling around wrestling each other just like kittens or puppies. Once they trust you a bit you can play with them, like if you hold out a stick they'll grab it and bite it and pull on it like a dog. Best pets ever. No vet fees, no kibble cost and they love dandelions. But they do chuck wood - again, sort of. They love to get into the woodpile and given the chance they will burrow underneath it. I learned long ago to put down chicken wire first. 😁

I forgot to mention a key piece of information that underscores the difference between woodchucks and beavers: the other common name for woodchuck is groundhog. Beavers and woodchucks are both rodents but woodchucks are smaller and don't have the big flat tail. I've never seen a woodchuck swim although I would bet they could in a pinch.

Cutting the tree for what🤷‍♂️

@@sihlezito4037 to make a dam

@@sihlezito4037 to make a dam

@@sihlezito4037 to make a dam

@@sihlezito4037 to make a dam

Mainly bark but some soft wood yeah especially in winter

❤😂😂

thank you.

W for beaver ❤

good for the beavers, they are better than you will ever be !

@@Jasmine-ez5td - hue-hue-hue.

A loose tube of chicken wire around the trunk is your friend.

Unlike human they don't cut hectars of trees.😊