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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 ...
In November 2021, a young beaver was photographed for the first time outside of the Ebro basin, in the upper Duero in Soria. [19] In June 2024, a beaver was sighted at the Tagus river basin near Zorita de los Canes. [20] In 2020, beavers were introduced secretly to two sites in central Italy, and have since spread rapidly. [21]
The English word beaver comes from the Old English word beofor or befor and is connected to the German word biber and the Dutch word bever.The ultimate origin of the word is an Indo-European root for ' brown '. [2]
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Skull of a beaver. 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.
The beaver (genus Castor) is a primarily nocturnal, large, semi-aquatic rodent in the Castoridae family. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
The European beaver was hunted almost to extinction, but is now being re-introduced throughout the continent. The three European lagomorphs are the European rabbit, mountain hare and European hare. Roe deer, a common European ungulate. Widespread and locally common ungulates are boar, moose, roe deer, red deer, reindeer, wisent, chamois and argali.