Why Do Beavers Build Dams? Nature's Engineers (Wildlife Documentary) | Natural Kingdom | Real Wild 

Doing this instead of watching 45 minutes of documentaries about beavers if you know what I mean

Dude, same, but I had a question and RU-vid delivered :D

I watched a great one yesterday and here I am today watching this one. Beavers are a truly amazing animal.

I had massive hangover, and I'm watching beavers building dams 6 hour straight

😂

Lol, the Hoover Dam!

amazing. isnt it?

And now it generates electricity to power their beaver lodges for the harsh winters in Nevada!

The Beaver Dam.

@@Music4DaSol😂😂😂😂

Who hasn't?

You’re absolutely correct. Sounds stupid.

I do it almost every summer. Technically and legally I'm not allowed to manipulate my creek. I do cut and trim willow for many uses around the property, many times I find my pile has been moved into the creek and is now full of mud and stuck in the water. We had a drought lately and I think the beavers all moved into the mountains where someone made a reservoir.

Awwwww.That is soo cute & cool for you to do.I would soo do that.Nature & Animals are theraputic 😀

Do you realize how redundant that sentence is? You "want to help a beaver make a damn to build one with a beaver". That's like saying you want to eat a bowl of cereal to eat some cereal. Redundant.

Our species is vile and disgusting, and doesn't deserve to continue existing... placing the world's ecosystems in great peril.

Yea and it sucks that they kill them now

why not introduce wolf as the new predator of the area?

Shut up

So from now on anytime conspiracy theorists say "They" we know they are talking about the illuminati beavers

Yeah but ponds for what purpose. Couldn't they just build the lodge and be good lol

@@cash3394 That's a good question and no they can't just build the lodge. Think of the pond as a duel purpose security system and climate control device. The lodge itself is built to have an underwater entrance. This creates a sealed habitat within the lodge to control the temperature for the babies/family. The underwater entrance also keeps out other animals who would prey on the beavers. Without having the pond at a set level, the lodge wouldn't work properly. If the water level sinks too low, the entrance is now out in the open. Animals can climb in the entrance and it is open to the outside atmosphere and temperature. By building the dam in the first place, it backs the water up to a controllable level by the beaver. If they want the water level a bit higher, they block the dam off more. If they want it a little lower, they remove some of the blocking sticks and let the level lower some. It's a constant battle by the beavers to use the dam to control the level of the pond. By having the pond at a set level, it determines where they build their lodge. So it's a linked system that creates their habitat. They can't have one without the other. The pond is a critical piece of infrastructure to maintaining safety in their home and the ability to grow their family.

@@aSinisterKiid ah makes sense they still some assholes though lol 😂

@@cash3394 yeah I can see how their presence can be annoying to some people with certain types of land. They can change the entire layout of the land if they decide to move into your local area. There are ways to look at it in the positive way though, where they are responsible for creating an entirely fresh and vibrant eco system in the right place. In places where they are native the food chain keeps things in control. They create a life cycle of fish and water based creatures with the pond, and then other wildlife visit the area more often because a dedicated water source is there. So you get deer, moose, wolves and all sorts of other mammals. Then you get the birds and hawks that come visit and eventually snakes, mice, rats and other insects around the water source. So having the whole ecosystem surviving around the water source can be a magical experience on your land. It seems to be when the beavers get into a non-native environment where there are no apex predators to kill them where they get out of control. They can destroy entire sections of forest within months if their population isn't controlled. So I can totally see how they can be assholes in certain circumstances.

Same!

These beavers are now my second favorite beavers. 🦫

I literally just finished a stick, turned this on and saw your comment. 😂😂

@@TristanLangdon 🤣🤣 thanks for the comment

Thank you😂

I liked the content but between the music drowning out the narrator and that obnoxious opening it was kind of hard to watch.

😂😂

Tell that to South America. They are both good and a pest in Canada as well.

NEED DAM

Harder than most people

Agreed!

im sure the forest feels the same way you do

Our pleasure, Scott

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Also Argentina isn’t any colder than Canada, casting doubt on the greasy fur theory.

I don't know why they're spreading misinformation like that. It's a known fact too.

gone . . .

totally agree, it's about a Beaver not Mozart

Music louder than the narrator and narrator louder than the translation 😂 great documentary though

Not true.

Well except they are literally doing the opposite

@@kylewood8448 Your poorly educayed pn the Beaver,

@scottfoster2487 not really, they may be helping downstream with flooding on floodplain but when they dam up areas like you said it creates wetland which is caused by flooding

You lived 45 minutes from where you lived? I happen to live right around the corner from where I live.

@@jamisonburress1220 I used to own a house in Andrew

really annoying

Wouldn't it be the deaf leading the deaf?

Now I can't unnotice it😭

Yeah, but i think they are to sheep for that ^

@Aaron Loos That's true. From the way the farmer was telling his story though, it didn't sound to me like that part bothered him all that much..

Let another Emu war start but this time with beavers

Years ago I watched a documentary that addressed the issue of blocked culverts. One of the individuals who had to unblock them found that if he played the sound of running water the beavers would move to that spot on their own

-by natural selection.

Can i harm them back, if they harm me ?

Beavers are too

Magic! The same way it can travel up your a**... ;)

They had a beaver camera crew who could speak english and beaver

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