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  2. Eurasian beaver - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Beaver - Wikipedia

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    Many populations of Eurasian beaver do not make rafts, but forage on land during winter. [9] Beavers usually live up to 10 years. Felids, canids, and bears may prey upon them. Beavers are protected from predators when in their lodges, and prefer to stay near water.

  4. Eurasian beaver reintroduction - Wikipedia

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    1934-1977 - Some 3,000 Eurasian Beavers from Voronezh in Russia were reintroduced to 52 regions of the USSR and neighbouring countries, from Poland to Mongolia. [61] 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 ...

  5. Wild beavers return to west London for the first time in 400 ...

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    A family of beavers has been released in the Paradise Fields wetlands area, in Ealing, west London.

  6. Where are all the beavers on Arizona's San Pedro River ... - AOL

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    Beavers help keep a riparian ecosystem functioning, but on the San Pedro River, the species has struggled to maintain steady populations.

  7. North American beaver - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Yes, beavers can help stop wildfires. And more places in ...

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    The roughly 1,000-year-old pictographs depict how various animals, including beavers, created the world. Beavers paddled in the waterways that wind through the reservation until several decades ...

  9. Castoridae - Wikipedia

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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. Two other genera of "giant beavers", Castoroides and Trogontherium, became extinct in the Late Pleistocene.