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Cute until it isn’t: Surviving a beaver attack in the wild

Dan Wherley never imagined a beaver could be dangerous. In his mind, they were slow, harmless dam builders. That changed in ...

Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. Six years later, here are the results.

Researchers brought beavers to Utah's dying Price River in 2019, and seven years later the results are remarkable.

80 Years Ago, Parachuting Beavers Helped Save America’s Wilderness. Today, They’re Furry Legends.

Elmo W. Heter had a problem: beavers were dying during overland relocations. His solution? Custom crates, surplus parachutes, ...

This city had a flooding problem. So it turned to an animal that had been extinct there for 400 years

A few hundred feet from a McDonalds’ and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, is a lush and thriving ...
The Dodo

Baby Beaver Is Obsessed With Building Dams In His Rescuer's Doorways

Last May, Nancy Coyne received a call from a lady with a very unusual request: Would she take a baby beaver? Coyne, a licensed wildlife rehabber in New York, assumed the woman must have found a ...
The Dodo

Rescued Beaver Cuddles Her Favorite Stuffed Animals To Sleep

The folks at The Pipsqueakery are used to caring for unique animals with quirky personalities — they rescue exotic pets, rodents and other wildlife daily. But one recent newcomer, a beaver named Agnes ...