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The beaver is the largest rodent in North America and competes with its Eurasian counterpart, the European beaver, for being the third-largest in the world, both following the South American capybara and lesser capybara. The European species is slightly larger on average but the American has a larger known maximum size.
North American beavers build more open-water lodges than Eurasian beavers. Beaver lodges built by new settlers are typically small and sloppy. More experienced families can build structures with a height of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and an above-water diameter of 6 m (20 ft).
In 2015, fish and game historian Sharon Clark discovered the film of the beaver drops, and the Idaho State Historical Society uploaded the video to YouTube. The film had been mishandled and misclassified, so it was digitized. [12] Time magazine claimed that the uploaded video made beavers, "the Internet's latest favorite animal". [13]
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Castoroides (Latin: "beaver" (castor), "like" (oides) [2]), or the giant beaver, is an extinct genus of enormous, bear-sized beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Two species are currently recognized, C. dilophidus in the Southeastern United States and C. ohioensis in most of North America.
1935 - Finland: in 1935, 17 Eurasian beavers were reintroduced, then two years later North American beavers sourced from New York were released. At the time, a difference between the species was unknown. Today, the North American beaver is considered an invasive species in Finland, and outnumbers Eurasian beavers 5:1.
New York State had been making efforts to restore the North American beaver population in the Adirondacks, which had nearly been extirpated due to overtrapping. [7] Al made a request in 1935 to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to release a pair of beavers on Littlesprite creek near the Richards' cottage, which was approved. [7]
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