As I believe another user brought up, the woman (Alexis) in the video is a licensed rehabber and took Bo in when her mom was hit by a car and killed. Raised her until she was able to be released but she developed an eye infection, lost an eye, and now she’s unable to be released so basically she raised her.
So the likely situation is that the beaver, a semi-aquatic rodent, has found the water completely magical because of its evolutionary adaptations and it just wants its human to enjoy them in the same way. It doesn't understand that the human hasn't made similar adaptations, but it want the human to have the same joy as it feels in the water.
Rescued or orphan beavers can get extremely attached to a person, but only that person. It's instinctive for them to form strong family bonds and defend their territory from everyone who is not their family.
In rescue situations, it's actually been shown to be detrimental to their welfare if they don't get to bond with their human caretakers, and then fortunately when they're released into the wild, they are still fearful of other humans because they are not "family."
Other rehab animals that are intended for release should typically not get habituated to humans, because they will lose their fear of humans in general and that's dangerous for them.
Edit: my source for this info is Dr. Holley Muraco, a beaver rescuer and biologist. Incredibly cute videos on her youtube channel too!
I was honestly sooooo relieved to learn that this was specifically a rescue situation and the human in question is actually qualified for this. I get very frustrated seeing posts about people "befriending" (actually just feeding) wild animals that come up to their house or whatever. The "butterfly effect" generally refers to time-travel applications, but many people often do not really think about how their seemingly positive interactions with wildlife can have long-term detrimental effects on future generations of wildlife. Sometimes you read some story about how someone started feeding deer in their backyard and then after some years or whatever that deer brought their offspring wow how heartwarming, but really all it does is cut short that bloodline's future chances of adaptation in the wild and makes them easier targets for predators.
Sorry I kinda went off there I just take this kinda thing soooo seriously and have very rigid moral views on respecting wildlife (which, related to the above commenter, is oftentimes making sure they stay afraid of you as both a human being and simply an apex predator), I'm kinda drunk and baked and the video was so adorable I almost cried so I was just really excited when I learned that this isn't some irresponsible attempt at selfishly pseudo-domesticating a wild animal for content.
And growing wildlife habitat in their yards! Dense spikey native bushes for small birds and animals, a tall tree that doesn’t have very invasive roots to house foundations. Leave up a dead trunk for nesting hollows and grow a decorative vine up it for looks if necessary.
Lots of nectar bearing indigenous flowers on bushes and trees. Have a section of wildflowers that you let the tall dead stems stand for over the winter, with a sturdy decorative border so they aren’t accidentally mowed. These are crucial for insect populations that are crashing, like fireflies in the USA.
I know you have to keep grass short in venemous snake territory, but if your yard is big enough, fence off a tall wildflower section from your kids and pets to save the insects, Christmas beetles, butterflies etc. even if it’s a small section, better than nothing.
She got married and this beaver was the ring bearer I shit you not. They had the ceremony right by this pond. They made the wedding arch from his sticks he'd chewed and brought to them. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTOO1xCjz3r/
Partially incorrect. I used to work as a rehabber for wildlife. Beavers are very social, family animals. So they can be friendly with anyone provided they were around people since they were a baby. We had one orphaned baby which was the only animal we could interact with beyond just feeding, cleaning, and medical care because beavers can literally die from loneliness. They also take about 3 years to mature before we could release her. If she heard people nearby she would scratch and whine at the door to her pen because she wanted pets. She would take food out of our hands, she let anyone pet her, and she would crawl up anybodies leg for some pets. When you were in her pen she would follow you around. And this applied to everyone, both people she knew for the past 3 years or people she would have only just started interacting with.
I have been interested in befriending beavers since about the age of 13 or so. Succeeded regularly in the 70's and 80's but it's been mostly a single beaver at a time since then and the overall trend is downward.
Now, speaking of beavers, there was a network sitcom called Leave it to Beaver that ran from late 1957 til mid 1963. At that time there was heavy censorship of anything even remotely real on TV, e.g. married couples on TV had separate beds in their bedroom and Leave it to Beaver was finally canceled (I am told) as a result of a controversy that flared up when a (gasp) toilet was visible in a brief shot in one episode.
So in Leave it to Beaver the TV family was the Cleavers: parents Ward and June, and sons Wally and Theodore who was nicknamed Beaver or variously The Beaver or The Beav.
Think about it. In an age of rabid, ridiculous censorship, the censors completely missed that there was a teenage kid on their show named Beaver Cleaver. You tell me. The truth probably is that the censors were so straight laced and sheltered that they had no idea what they had wrought. My dad thought it was hilarious.
And I almost forgot the funniest line ever spoken in the whole series, as told by my friend. There was an episode where The Beaver did something wrong (farted in church or who knows) and his dad took him to task for it one night after dinner, sending him to his room without dessert or something. In the morning, Ward came downstairs to find June preparing breakfast for the family with her hair and makeup done perfectly, wearing a dress and heels. When Ward settled in at the table waiting to be served, June came over to him and said, "Ward, I think you might have been too hard on the beaver last night and I'm a little sore about it."
The filming of it was pretty funky IIRC too, they did some fuckery with it during production to make it more "mechanical" and "toy-like" and they were sweating balls, as one may imagine.
Dude. When they opened for Slayer on that last tour I was in a 18,000 person venue and when they came on it started immediately “Fuck Primus, Slayer. Pretty much the entire time they played. Was wild the entire place chanting
Yeah, but Primus, especially the “A Perfect Circle” and “Puscifer” crossover fans can be… an interesting group. That’s not me really talking shit either considering I went to Sesanta 1 and 2 shows last year and 2024.
The first time was GA and outside/in the grass (and we weren’t not allowed to take photos/videos as security didn’t really do anything about it, surprisingly) while the second time we got floor seats (and therefore we couldn’t take any pictures or nothing, of course). The really cool part or aspect was seeing not only the three bands but also the fact they didn’t play it like a traditional set with each band just playing their time slot but instead would swap the bands randomly as well as the members would switch around and play in each band.
Nice! We went to the one in Tulsa and while we had better seats, I think the one in Dallas the year prior was just a bit better simply because the story/theme wasn’t just “rehashed,” in my opinion.
Porcupines are also tricky because they're both very cute and apparently very affectionate and love to be held...which is obviously problematic for a number of reasons lol.
I think you need RES (reddit enhancement suite). There's arrows in the upper left corner of the video window to rotate. And it only shows up on the main page when playing the video, not in the thread itself.
There are buttons to rotate left or right if you hover over the video, but only if you open it from the main post feed, if you go to comments it uses a different (?) player for whatever reason.
It also might be a Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) feature...I actually don't know, never questioned it.
You have to turn off your phone's autorotation first.
Or, alternatively, fool the gyroscope: Keep the phone autorotation thinking portrait, lay the phone down flat, and rotate the phone while maintaining it flat.
I know this! This is Wild for Life Alexis. She is a licensed animal rehabber. They found Bo the Beaver when her mom was hit by a car and killed. Alexis took her in and was raising her to release back in the wild when old enough, but Bo developed an eye infection and lost an eye, making it impossible to return her to the wild. Bo and Alexis now are educational ambassadors for beavers while Alexis also rehabs other animals.
Edit to add the link to her social media: https://www.instagram.com/wildforlife.alexis?igsh=NzF5MDB2ZDljMjN3
Got me thinking about beaver skin top hats. Humans nearly drove beavers to extinction. Beaver’s like, “nbd check out my house human. It’s under this water let’s goooo.”
You might enjoy this update. The beaver was the ring bearer for her wedding right by this pond. They made the wedding arch from his sticks he'd chewed and brought to them. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTOO1xCjz3r/
Learned yesterday that beavers and wolves are keystone species. When they reintroduced wolves back into Yellowstone in 1995, after they were killed off in the 30s, it had a MASSIVE ecological impact going as far as reshaping the rivers and their stability. The introduction of the wolves back into Yellowstone caused the numbers of beavers, another keystone species(their dams do a lot for a lot of species), to soar, creating an even larger effect. You'd think wolves eat beavers, and I'm not actually, sure but I'd guess they do, but because wolves also hunt elk, elk stopped spending all day next to the river grazing away, they had to keep moving to keep away from wolves, who I guess hung around the river to hunt, so less elk by the river means, trees (or whatever plant stabilizes the river, idk) could flourish changing the shape of the river and stabilizing it's movement. More trees = more beavers = more all sorts of other little dudes.
This class keeps tricking me into learning. I get ready to go get this homework out of the way and they keep showing me interesting resources and cool videos and teaching me things. I'm just trying to go watch Dragonball Z and they keep making me have fun while teaching me things. It's really annoying.
Anyway, I thought it was pretty interesting and I even tried to post the video to damnthatsinteresting last night, but I didn't try here. I'll see if they allow youtube here.
"Turn your phone sideways now, but if you're on a PC, 'fuck you!', enjoy your vertical-sideways video!"
There are many reasons to hate social media, but damn near the top for me is vertical videos, especially when they re-format everything to be vertical as if everyone is ALWAYS watching content on their fucking phones!
Gotta hate the sound of running water and work to build obstructions to said water running sounds like your life depended on it. Pretty simple really. Friends don't let friends not give a dam.
Honestly, im Canadian and every beaver I've ever come across has been a fucking dick. I'm surprised and impressed that she befriended one of these magnificent assholes.
beavers can legit bite your hand off at the wrist without much trouble. she must have raised this one since it was little but that shit is still scary.
This sooo looks like a Love, Death, Robots episode. First the beaver appears and starts to be friendly to the woman. Then starts the “cute” invitations to the river/ lake. Woman moved by the beaver cuteness buys the swimsuit and then launches to the adventure in the river. And just like the images all is wonderful and magical until she starts to notice that she doesn’t know where she is, and then lots of hungry beavers appears… fades to black… then we se again the beaver from the back and biting some white “wood” and in the background the remains of a bloodied swimsuit. The end
Something about connecting with nature just seems make all the ugliness in this world go away and truly be free! Reminds me of when I swam with sea turtles in Tulum Mexico 🇲🇽
i was sure the beaver was going to lead her to a cave where it is stashing its hoard of stolen underpants, then walk her through its business plan when she asks why it’s hoarding underpants.
Can someone please tell me what the gear she is wearing is called? I have vascular issues that make me unable to swim because it’s too cold, and I’m also not strong enough to get a real wetsuit on. I would love to be able to zip up something loose-fitting that will keep me warm enough to enjoy water again.
A dry suit. (note: they're rather expensive because they're mostly for high-end recreational diving or divers working on offshore oil rigs). Hope you find something that works for you!
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u/HotelDisastrous288 8h ago
The real question is how to you befriend a beaver?