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BeaverTails is a Canadian restaurant chain, specializing in pastries known as BeaverTails, that is operated by BeaverTails Canada Inc. Its namesake products are fried dough pastries, individually foot stretched to resemble beaver's tails, with various toppings added on the pastry.
Beavers select food based on taste, coarse physical shape, and odor. Beavers feed on wood, bark, cambium, [72] branches, twigs, roots, buds, [72] leaves, stems, sprouts, and in some cases, the sap and storax of pine and sweetgum. [42] When herbaceous plants are actively growing, they make up much of the beaver's diet.
Beavers can also recognize their kin by their anal gland secretions and are more likely to tolerate them as neighbors. Historically, beavers have been hunted for their fur, meat, and castoreum. Castoreum has been used in medicine, perfume, and food flavoring; beaver pelts have been a major driver of the fur trade.
In 2003, Chi-Chi's, a popular Mexican restaurant chain in Beaver Valley Mall, Center Township, experienced a severe Hepatitis A outbreak that resulted in widespread illness and fatalities.
The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) or European beaver is a species of beaver widespread across Eurasia, with a rapidly increasing population of at least 1.5 million in 2020. The Eurasian beaver was hunted to near-extinction for both its fur and castoreum , with only about 1,200 beavers in eight relict populations from France to Mongolia in the ...
Arch "Beaver" Aplin. In 1982, founder Arch "Beaver" Aplin was a partner in the opening of a store in Clute, Texas, the first to bear the name "Buc-ee's".He formed the name Buc-ee's by combining his childhood nickname; the name of his Labrador Retriever, Buck; as well as the appeal of Ipana toothpaste's animated mascot, Bucky the beaver.
Beavers are perfectly adapted for life in water and even have webbed rear feet. They have two thick, oily coats of fur to keep them warm and dry and both their ears and nostrils are valvular.
The chain's namesake product is a line of fried dough pastries, individually hand-stretched to resemble a beaver's tail. The chain began in Ottawa and now has franchises and licensees in six countries: Canada (Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia and Quebec), the United States, Japan, France, U.A.E., and Mexico.