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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.
But, the rumors are true: There might be small amounts of beaver butt goo in some of our favorite gummy candies, ice creams, sodas and baked goods. Don't worry though, it's safe .
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 ...
Beaver dam, an animal construction which has a transformative effect on the environment. The beaver is a well known ecosystem engineer and keystone species. It transforms its territory from a stream to a pond or swamp. Beavers affect the environment first altering the edges of riparian areas by cutting down older trees to use for their dams ...
Trophic cascades are powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems, occurring when a trophic level in a food web is suppressed. For example, a top-down cascade will occur if predators are effective enough in predation to reduce the abundance, or alter the behavior of their prey, thereby releasing the next lower trophic level from predation (or herbivory if the intermediate ...