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Cognates of beaver is the source for several European placenames, including those of Beverley, Bièvres, Biberbach, Biebrich, Bibra, Bibern, Bibrka, Bobr, Bober, Bóbrka, Bjurholm, Bjurälven, and Bjurum. [3] The genus name Castor has its origin in the Greek word κάστωρ kastōr and translates as ' beaver '. [4]
In Canada and the United States, the North American beaver is often referred to simply as "beaver", although this can cause some confusion because another distantly related rodent, Aplodontia rufa, is often called the "mountain beaver". Other vernacular names, including American beaver [23] and Canadian beaver, [29] distinguish this species ...
Two baby beavers, known as kits, were first spotted in early July in an enclosure on the Ewhurst Park estate near Basingstoke. Beavers born in Hampshire for first time in 400 years Skip to main ...
Commenters also couldn't get enough of the cute baby beaver. @Shock made me laugh when he pointed out, "Any beaver when they hear running water, “Oh hells nah” LOL!" @JeffreyP made a good ...
In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher. A castrated male is called a steer in the United States. Older steers are sometimes called bullocks in other parts of the world, [6] but in North America this term refers only to a young bull ...
Zoo officials announced the arrival of three American beavers, a.k.a. kits, born on May 16. The kits' parents are 8-year-old female Wicket and 6-year-old male Justin, according to the zoo's press ...
Castoridae is a family of rodents that contains the two living species of beavers and their fossil relatives. A formerly diverse group, only a single genus is extant today, Castor . Two other genera of "giant beavers", Castoroides and Trogontherium , became extinct in the Late Pleistocene .
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