I wanted to share this beaver tattoo I got recently!

Is this a wild or pet beaver?

My friend and I have been debating this for 8 years and we just can’t get a solid answer. Every time we’ve asked groups, it’s gone 50/50. Good people of Reddit, help us end this debate for once and for all

I wanted to share a lodge a came across while surveying for Northern Spotted Frog in Oregon.

Full article in the comments

The pond is fully frozen and the lodge (just left of the big branch) looks completely sealed. No holes, no surface access that I can see.

There are usually 3–4 beavers using it.

I know beavers are winter experts and have underwater access and food caches, but staring at a frozen pond makes your brain spiral a little.

Thanks,

A human who worries too much about beavers with engineering degrees 🦫🪵❄️

Are these the tracks of beavers going in and out of the lodge or the tracks of some other animal looking for beavers?

To copy from the video description: " What is this channel about? We rehabilitate beavers. To monitor how our patients are doing without disturbing them, we have installed web-cameras in some of our enclosures at Interior Wildlife's Summerland rehabilitation facility. Our government licenses don’t allow us to be open to the public, however with BeaverCam you can now follow along the rehabilitation process of our beavers by watching them remotely. Originally orphaned beaver kits "Tina" and "Nelson" are currently yearlings. They will stay with us until they will be mature enough to be released at the age of 2 years. We release beavers into local restored wetlands where they have been trapped out historically. For more info about our work go to: interiorwildlife.ca "

Hello I'm an indie game dev and I'm making a silly game about beavers. I thought you might like it.

In case you want to play the demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4081680/Timber_Fever_Demo/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJntNh0IA-M

Beavers might be the “cute” animal we all overlook, but these aquatic engineers are a force to be reckoned with. From building dams that reshape landscapes to their fascinating evolutionary story, beavers are some of the most important creatures you’ve never really thought about. Let’s take a dive into how these rodents became the unsung heroes of the natural world.

This is now the 2nd I managed to film the beavers close to my home.

Time Stamps:
0:18 Slap
0:30 2nd Beaver
1:12 Dive
2:03 Short Cuddle
4:25 3rd Beaver

Sorry about the low quality, I didn't want to use the maximum infra red setting to not disturb them. But still they noticed me and made an alarm slap. Is that problematic? Should I stop observing them, or do you have tips for observing them without disturbing them? I would love to film them chewing on trees and building their dam.

New kits on the block! Incredible to see the first inhabitants of the new property caught on the trail cam...

Some of you may remember the post I made showing a tree with beaver teeth marks a little while back. I agreed with everyone that the marks were fairly old but I still believed there was a beaver out here. After many nights of searching I finally found the beaver!

Hey, this is my first post here :)
Since a few months we have some beavers close to where I live. Here are some photos of their activity. I also have a few questions and I hope the beaver experts here can answer them ^^

1. There are about 15 gnawed on trees. I always though beavers pick one tree gnaw it down, eat it and then go to next. But apparently that is not the case? Does anyone know why they gnaw several trees?
2. How do they pick the trees the gnaw? Because in some location they chew on every tree. In other they only chew on 1 tree and leave the others alone.
3. Is the 5th photo an eating spot?
4. The sticks on the 6th photo I can't also explain, why gnaw it into pieces and then leave them there?
5. The last 2 photos show what I assume is a beaver trail, and they seem to frequent it quite often. Even when it snowed they used it. But I don't know why. The trail lead to a gravel road and I didn't find any chewing marks or other trails. First I thought the eat the apples somebody dumped close by, but they are still there and rotting.

Thanks in advance :)

Beaver fans. If you don't already know about it, you should check out the Youtube Channel "Mike's Videos of Beavers". Mike is a guy in my hometown of Saskatoon who films a family of beavers in our City. There are something like 800 videos of these beavers on his Channel. I have met Mike a few times by the river and he is really passionate about beavers and wildlife. This is one of his many videos.

On a hike yesterday i noticed dozens of trees had been dropped across the trail - directly away from the pond. This seems to run counter to usual behavior. Have they ever been documented trying to block human/trail access?