woah , I knew beaver used tree branches to build "damns". But that they actually brings stones to weigh it down and place muddy stuff on it to keep it sealed etc , that was suprising O.o
Fyi. A lot of times you can find muskrats in beaver dams. The muskrats bring back leaves for bedding, in return for food. Basically the pay beaver rent.
I have spent many many peaceful hours on the Chattooga, Nantahala, Chattahoochee, at sunset just drifting in my kayak listening to the sweet soft gentle mewling sounds of beaver talking to one another - slapping their tails in warning, just enjoying the twilight ... they are incredible ... just last night I was talking with my neighbor about our local population of beaver - we are so fortunate to have them here.
Used this video to teach my 4yr old about beavers. After reading a book about beavers and this was by far most informative and very educational! we both enjoyed it a lot and learned so much 😃
"Beavers mitigate droughts" what a surprise.... nature can take care of itself and do it better than we can... it might have to do with the fact that nature has millions of years of practice
While I certainly agree that nature has millions of years of practice, you do realize humans are evolved animals and just as much a part of nature as the damn beaver and their dams.
And also, nature isn’t a perfect system, it’s a system evolved by chance, and sometimes combos turn wrong, like the one ant species that is killing all the rest or a better squirrel killing all the others.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO VERY NICE , AND I LEARNED ALOT ! I JUST PURSCHASED SOME LAND IN CENTRAL IL AND I NOTICED WE HAD BEAVERS IN ARE 3 LAKES , I SEEN THEY WAS EATING ALL ARE BIG TREES THAT ARE GROWING IN WATER . I WAS CONCERNED AND WAS LOOKING UP BEAVER INFORMATION TO LEARN HOW TO HUNT THEM AND GET THEM OUT OF ARE PONDS TO SAVE ARE TREES , BUT AFTER WATCHING THIS VIDEO I HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP THE BEAVERS LOL AND LET THEM BE IN POND. SO I WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN HOLD WATER IN ARE PONDS . GREAT VIDEO !!!THANKS
CAPS LOCK IS A KEY YOU CAN HIT SO IT DOESN"T LOOK LIKE YOU ARE YELLING AT EVERYONE. ALSO, ARE is not a term to show ownership, the word you were looking for is our.
im not a spelling nazi, nor was i being a spelling nazi... idgaf about spelling too much.. just tryna help him out since our and are are 2 separate words that even sound separate...
+envoy3 I said the same thing to myself out loud when i heard that, "did she just say like me?". Probably this is a speel she used to telling people over and over as she educates people, and someone probably said "like you" or "like us" one time as a remark which she liked and has used it ever since. Thats just my imagination at work as a likely explanation. Really though I was thinking she didnt look all that curvy, but i can't really see with those clothes on, and i think in this case id rather not have her prove me wrong. Despite my and your objections she's doing a great thing and the world needs more people like her!
i seen a beaver the other day fishing. And it didn't swim away it came right up to me about 5ft away looked at me and swim away. i thought it was going to attack me
Beavers do attack humans if you are invading their space, but it is not often. They do not fish. They are total vegetarian. They eat the soft bark off of branches, grasses and aquatic plants. It may have looked to fish, in reality, was probably getting some stashed food, or putting sicks into the mud to support the lodge or dam. Without beavers, there would be no wet land and diversity in them. They also help the water to get filtered, allow spaces for fish to populate and other wildlife including plant diversity. Trees in forest can get too dense to let in sunlight, and beavers 'open up' areas to allow for different plant life, which then brings song birds and other animals. Beavers have long been hunted and miss understood in being useful other than for fur. It is now being re introduced into wide places to bring back fresh water to areas such as Yellowstone, California and even in the Rocky mountain areas and beyond. One of the largest Beaver dams can be found in Northern Alberta. It can be seen from space! They are close family units and they can defend their area. They will stay together as a pair until something happens to one of them. They will slap their tails on the water to give warning to the 'clan' that danger is near! Hope you enjoy your beavers when you see them next, but be careful of their space, as they are very territorial :) Take pictures! Cheers...a Nature Centre Artist in Canada.
Came upon a couple while canoeing Boundary Waters. They had made an impressive furrow in a birch tree. They stood their ground. Their reputation for hard working is accurate. Otters play all day. Beavers have other plans for their future, or at least this couple did.
Oh wow never knew they had so much effect on the ecosystem beside from flooding the place. But how these suckers even house other animals in the winter..awesome :)
i used to think that way when i was in twenties but it is very complex. Companies will not stop that because they have to pay returns to their share holders and indians and chinease have just started on that path. I see no hope, you as a human want to stop it but the owner or shareholder of the company as a human wants to have more profits and don't educate themselves. example, you probably eat beef twice a day but will not hurt a cattle if you have to do everything from the scratch. it is very complex.
Aris Niro if we did that our living standards will fall drastically. Look at nomadic societies and some of there darkest practises. Like killing babies to keep populations low. Illiteracy. Disease. People starve and die in the winter. People die of thirst in draughts. You get the picture
You sound a little dramatic here. Many people are suffering right now with only a minority in each country living a happy, abundant life. Really, if humans stopped breeding like the world was going to end if they slow down, then we could actually share with nature without taking so much that, like I said, only a few benefit from, despite the growing, needy population. You're talking about giving EVERYTHING back. Yes, you sound dramatic, and I say that partly because you seem unaware just how much is being taken from nature without any returning. The damage humans have done in the relatively short period we've been on this planet is horrifying. Don't make it sound like my suggestion will cause deaths. Human society at this moment is killing more lives than simple, fair sharing ever could.
Aris Niro For the record, I know when you say "Humanity" you mean everyone but yourself, but the emissions coming from the plant powering your charger and lights is killing more animals- including Beaver, then any person emptying a Beaver lake ever possibly could. Js for all the pretentious cunts who think that everyone EXCEPT themself is a horrible nature-killing monster.
it is not necessary to kill babies (either by abortion of infanticide) to control population. It is not necessary to kill animals to have good nutritious food. Humans are lazy and selfish, probably more than any other animal. That is why the world is a mess.
LOOK CALIFORNIA all you college educated engineers just let nature take its course leave the beaver ALONE it will stop your drought and let them have a piece of nature that was once thiers to start with really THEY WERE HERE FIRST
I live two miles from the Santa Ana river in So. Cal with numerous small creeks that feed it and I keep hoping they will reintroduce them here one day.
idk if beavers are native (to parts of socal) but i do think norcal areas that have lots of nature can benefit. its only because california doesnt have a lot of space :/
Beaver are native to the entire continental landmass of America, from Alaska to Chile. They live wherever there is water flowing from the highlands down to the sea. That means Everywhere except the most arid deserts.which means they are at home almost everwhere... Duh.
Beavers are good free labors for the nature and human being., beavers don't get paid from human beings and can do better than workers... as 15:57 says: beavers are nature's greatest engineers, 19:57 They turn deserts into gardens.
Beaver built dams to prevent drought and desert. US love to eradicate these beavers. That explains why US has so terrible droughts/fire/storm recently.
What I find most amazing, is how such an incredible skill could have developed in these animals. Sure--other animals make homes. Birds build nests. Some dig holes in the ground. But how did evolution come-up with the idea of a creature damming streams and digging canals to control water?
Very well done. Thx. Interesting, educational, touching, worrisome, nice surprises. :-) :-) Nice catchy title too, especially for us seniors that remember 60's tv family comedy series "Leave It To Beaver". :-D :-D
"now they are recovery but they're funding a changed world full of houses and farms. As beavers reclaim their ancestral ponds they flood hundreds of human homes" That's the pay back for what the humans did to them hundred years ago.
Leave it up to human beings to almost wipe out an entire fascinating species, that's the best building animal species in the world in order to wear it as a fucking hat. Lol
Wow! I never knew before that beavers has a very big role in our ecosystem. Lesson learned don't judge a book by its cover. Yes, indeed we owe it to beavers and I learned a lot from these wonderful creatures.
