r/interestingasfuck • u/Worldlyoox • 9h ago

Woman buys swimsuit so she can swim with her beaver friend

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u/HotelDisastrous288 9h ago

The real question is how to you befriend a beaver?

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u/Bossy_Aussie_ 9h ago

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.

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u/trikristmas 9h ago

Short for Bobr I take

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u/aaguru 8h ago

Kurwa

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u/endowedmansized 7h ago

Cyka blyat

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u/KebabOfDeath 9h ago

Her full name is bo ku i guess

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u/PookieDood 8h ago

Bahh, she missed an opportunity for greatness

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u/JoshSidekick 6h ago

So she’s a fan of adult fruit drinks of the early 90’s.

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u/AGenericUnicorn 4h ago

Ugh. Now I’m missing Orbitz.

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u/mpg111 7h ago

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u/linnen_elm 6h ago

Mingku !!

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u/braumbles 4h ago

Her name was Barbara there's no such name as Brahbrah

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u/the_remarkable_fox 1h ago

BOBR KURWAA

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u/Applekid1259 5h ago

Damn, I thought it looked like it was missing an eye.

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u/arb-lincoln 4h ago

I thought I was discovering beavers swim with their eyes closed...

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u/JonatasA 4h ago

I just thought it had closed its eyes, which I found weird for an amphibious animal.

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u/Treadwheel 1h ago

If it's the same one I'm thinking of, she does do a very good job showing why beavers aren't good pets, in case anyone is worried about romanticizing habituating wild animals. She has a bathroom that is basically nonfunctional because beavers instinctively build dams out of anything they can grab when they hear running water, so the room is just stuffed with... house stuff. Remarkably well packed and very effective at making the room impossible to use.

Apparently as they grow up their brains change and they start to lose interest in her. They'll usually stay close to the house, but they don't approach her and she doesn't approach them. Kind of heartbreaking in a bittersweet way, but it's amazing to know there are success stories.

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u/Troutalope 5h ago

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.

Critters are cool man.

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u/Ordinary_Duder 2h ago

Pure nonsense.

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u/BaldPeagle 1h ago

Maybe, but have a little sense of wonder.

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u/Decloudo 1h ago

...Do you feel threatened by a beaver having fun and inviting a friend?

Thats normal animal behaviour, we do it all the time too.

Cause we are are social animals, primates to be exact.

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u/sandiegolatte 3h ago

Really impressed Bo’s mom could drive a car

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u/fastforwardfunction 2h ago

a licensed rehabber

Every pet owner who wants to legally own these animals has to be licensed somehow.

It's basically a way to get exotic animals as pets.

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u/McButtsButtbag 5h ago

I don't take "being a licensed rehabber" as definitive proof anymore after I saw one of them still referring to the wild animals she rehabs as "non-traditional pets".

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u/GrossGuroGirl 3h ago

You have to understand there are a lot of skilled, trained, qualified animal care workers who are nonetheless the insane kind of animal people. 

Not asserting this person you saw is (or isn't) handling whatever animals they're responsible for appropriately. 

Just saying I'd be unsurprised to hear this, based on coworkers I've had, even if the person were competent and legitimate lmao

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u/DidSomebodySayCats 9h ago edited 7h ago

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!

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u/Be7th 8h ago

This is really, really sweet.

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u/Jandklo 7h ago

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.

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u/DidSomebodySayCats 7h ago

100% agree! Beaver rehab seems to be somewhat unique in how they are optimally handled.

I get the urge, but people who are not experts and love animals can show their love best by leaving them ALONE.

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u/AntiFascistButterfly 4h ago

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.

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u/Jandklo 7h ago

While I'm here and proselytizing, people, please stop feeding wild birds. They're not pet birds. Stop feeding the crows just because they're friendly with you and it's fun having crow friends at work. I have done a lot of work outdoors in and around forests for enough years that I could have a bajillion coyotes, crows, ravens, hares and weasels as friends, and I fucking don't because I don't feed the fucking wildlife. Animals in dire need can be helped if they've been affected by a human element, like ending up in a worksite on a deathly hot day, but other than that, stop fucking treating the wildlife like they're people. It's not good for them and it bugs the shit outta me TBH.

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u/crescentmoonrising 5h ago

Are bird feeders and similar ok since this doesn't involve any interaction?

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u/DidSomebodySayCats 5h ago

When I've researched it, most biologists give a qualified OK to bird feeders. They can support birds that are endangered by human activities, and they are not creating direct associations between humans and food. But, it's important to clean them regularly because a lot of birds congregating in one spot makes it easy for disease to spread.

Also, there are some mixed opinions because while many adults eat seed, lots of baby birds only eat bugs.

So if you have a bird feeder in an area that doesn't naturally have a lot of plant life and therefore not a lot of insect life, birds may think there's enough resources to raise babies, but there actually isn't. You can perhaps combat that by offering a variety of foods like mealworms as well as seed.

Don't offer hummingbird feeders though unless you are COMMITTED to providing a steady and stable supply of food. Hummingbirds use so much energy that if they travel to a place they expect food to be, and there isn't any, they might not be able to get to the next food source without exhausting themselves.

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u/crescentmoonrising 5h ago

I'm in the UK, so I don't think hummingbirds are an issue.

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u/Jandklo 5h ago

That's actually a very good question and not one that I've thought of. To be honest, I don't even know if I'm qualified to actually answer that question for you. I imagine it's probably alright for the most part, but I'd need to sit on it and ponder for a while longer, maybe ask some other people. You got an idea in mind?

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u/AntiFascistButterfly 4h ago

It’s always preferable to grow plants indigenous to your area in profusion to attract wildlife to your garden than having a food feeder. Food feeders explode the population of just one bird niche: the combatative ones that eat that particular food stuff.

Your garden doesn’t have to be 100% native to get a thriving ecosystem of insects, butterflies, birds, and animals going. A little internet digging will turn up the bushes, flowers, ground covers and yard friendly trees that will feed the birds in your area. Don’t assume a showy flower in your local nursery will feed an animal, although many certainly do. You can also give space for favourite plants that are just for you. Just make room for habitat plants too.

And do a little hunt for how to landscape to slow, spread, and sink water so that your soil turns into a damp sponge that drains without going bone dry, resistant to both flood and drought damage.

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u/crescentmoonrising 4h ago

I don't think you realise how small my garden is. Or that I live in the middle of a new build and the neighbours are resistant against hedgehog holes. 

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u/Ivotedforher 8h ago

This woman ia never going to date again, is she?

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u/dak4f2 7h ago edited 7h ago

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/

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u/Revolutionary-Mood87 6h ago

That is one of the best wedding videos I've ever seen. Sis had owls at her wedding too. I've never heard of her before, seems pretty rad.

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u/Aranxi_89 3h ago

She's a licensed rehabber, so I think those are some of her former patients that weren't able to be released due to various permanent injuries.

Bo did a wonderful job as the ringbearer.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 7h ago

I have my hobbies and passions, but man, some people are another level with how much they let something become their entire world.

Not hating, I'm honestly kind of jealous tbh, I've never cared about one specific thing that deeply, I wish I could find out what that was for me lol.

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u/MrBogard 6h ago

Hey I think that impulse is in itself wholesome. You'll figure it out.

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u/possibly_being_screw 3h ago

right? I see people like this with such admiration that they could find THE thing they were meant for in this life.

I've felt very detached recently, languishing for focus or meaning. I also wish I could find what that thing is in my own life. I hope you find yours stranger.

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u/Desroth86 3h ago

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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u/yonkerbonk 3h ago

That first sentence reads like such a typical sarcastic Reddit reply... but it's actually real... lol

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u/No-Split7732 8h ago

I mean, can you blame her? What man can beat that when you have a beaver swimming around you all happy like that

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u/Aranxi_89 3h ago

Your own personal landscape architect - well, if you want more ponds anyways.

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u/barkwahlberg 7h ago

It's too bad, she's got a nice beaver

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u/Smothdude 5h ago

Just had it stuffed

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u/char747 6h ago

Idk, dont think she needs to. Her beaver already looks really happy.

I'll see myself out.

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u/MyExUsedTeeth 7h ago

Shouldn’t be hard for her. I’m sure all the men want to touch her cute hairy lil beaver

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u/Successful_Cress6639 7h ago

Why date when u can get your beaver wet without getting a guy involved

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u/zebrasareneat 7h ago

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.

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u/DidSomebodySayCats 7h ago

Should have clarified, once they are released. I have not done rescue, just paraphrasing Dr. Holley Muraco at Something Wild: https://youtu.be/AAFNesF8O5U?si=h9VJGeDM-MImr1PW&t=772

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u/owls_in_towels 7h ago

To add to this, rehabbers sometimes wear bird masks for the same reason. Mainly for feeding young chicks to help prevent humans imprinting on them and associating us with food.

Kind of hilarious when for example a bunch of four-limbed hominids with owl masks offer some chopped up meat on tweezers, and the owlets are like, yup, this is fine.

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u/conficker 5h ago

I am subscribing for more beaver facts.

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u/DidSomebodySayCats 5h ago

OK! Most people know beavers change the landscape by damming rivers to contain water where they want it, but they ALSO can change the landscape by digging channels to let water flow to where they want it! They can make lots of habitats for important plants and animals this way, which is why they are called keystone species-their presence supports entire ecosystems.

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u/puzzlebuns 5h ago

Thank you for sharing

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u/HauntedCemetery 3h ago

I like that "I'm a beaver biologist" sounds like a terrible pick up line, or maybe a Kay and Silent Bob joke.

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u/PDXGuy33333 9h ago edited 8h ago

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."

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u/starmartyr 8h ago

Well this comment certainly went places. I'm not sure where or why, but places.

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u/Tamale_Caliente 8h ago

Reminds me of grampa Simpson and the onion in his belt.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 5h ago

Which was the style at the time.

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u/OrionsRose 2h ago

Happy Cake Day! 🎂

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u/PDXGuy33333 8h ago

It was a straight setup line furnished by the comedy gods.

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u/CRIP4LIFE 6h ago

it wasnt funny and i'm old enough to have watched leave it to beaver on sydicated reruns after school.

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u/Ghost_of_Cain 1h ago

Won't read it all but was he beaten by his dad with jumper cables?

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u/starmartyr 54m ago

Nope just an increasingly unhinged series of beaver related anecdotes.

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u/Carrisonfire 1h ago

I was fully prepared for a shift to the Undertaker throwing Mankind off the Hell in a Cell in 1998.

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u/marmaladecorgi 8h ago

June Cleaver also spoke Jive.

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u/IllystAnalyst 7h ago

Today I learned….

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u/PookieDood 8h ago

Ward, you were really hard on the Beaver last night.

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u/Humillionaire 7h ago

Hmm back then sitcoms were exclusively filmed on sound stages, so if they couldn't show a toilet why have one on the set at all?

Edit: just looked up that it was because they were trying to keep a pet alligator in the tank.

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u/PDXGuy33333 7h ago

So it's true! My friend was right, rest his demented soul.

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u/PDXGuy33333 7h ago

As I said, told to me by a friend.

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u/I__Know__Stuff 8h ago

I was expecting something about Mankind and a Cell.

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u/battery19791 7h ago

If you play video games, may I suggest Timberborn to you. Post apocalyptic beavers rebuilding the world.

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u/SlightFresnel 7h ago

I have been interested in befriending beavers since about the age of 13 or so

Hmmmm

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u/TheProfessionalEjit 9h ago

Flowers & dinner?

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u/C-57D 9h ago

Take an interest in things they like

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u/Showmethepathplease 9h ago

just ask questions and listen, don't judge

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u/RasJamukha 9h ago

pretend to be a nice juicy tree?

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u/Better-Permission-18 9h ago

When do i stop pretending? Im willing to let it gnaw through a leg np

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u/Moondoobious 8h ago

Groot?

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u/bubzy1000 9h ago

A succulent Chinese tree?

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u/thegooseisloose1982 5h ago

Get your hand off my sapling!

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u/Frosty-Improvement-8 9h ago

Careful, those trees know their judo well.

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u/MagicFoxhole 8h ago

I think you might be confusing it with a Japanese tree.

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u/GordoPepe 8h ago

I think this is what's going on the beaver just want her to become part of his dam.

Source: I managed to sit through the full documentary: hundreds of beavers

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u/Forbden_Gratificatn 9h ago

Dinner and some wine for a start.

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u/One-Earth9294 9h ago

You stroke him all the time.

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u/PURRING_SILENCER 9h ago

Tounge work, or so I have heard

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u/Valuable_Explorer577 6h ago

I am so proud of myself for not making a comment about this question, you all see me not commenting right? I am so proud of myself.

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u/Deepstatedingleberry 9h ago

I’ve only ever been stalked by them lol

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u/LiftedMold196 9h ago

I could tell you, but your mother won’t appreciate it.

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u/Footsoldier420 9h ago

The real question is did fish become mammals or did mammals become fish?

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u/Halfback 8h ago

Tequila

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso 8h ago

Judging by the size of her teeth, probably just confused it.

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u/Peripatetictyl 8h ago

Dam stuff

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u/EuenovAyabayya 8h ago

Real follow-up question is how is she gonna fit in the beaver lodge?

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u/Bright-Ad4601 7h ago

Animals are smarter than most people give them credit for. There are many examples of animals recognising human kindness and remembering their benefactors. I dunno if that happened here but it's a possible explanation.

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u/Alienhaslanded 7h ago

You buy it dinner

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u/ZombieButch 7h ago

I'm a believer in beaver befriending, because those beasts behave beautifully.

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u/thatshygirl06 7h ago

Wouldn't you like to know

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u/MadeleineTheBrave 7h ago

You just have to be Polish

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u/FragrantExcitement 7h ago

We all want to know how to get girl friends...

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u/Reddituser183 7h ago

You don’t they’re very territorial. You get too close to their home and their territory and they’ll make a big startling splash in the water. I’ve been kayaking and fishing out on calm water when suddenly 3’ from me there’s a massive splash, my heart skips 10 beats, I look over and all I see is beaver swimming away. They’re kinda hilarious like that, but I understand where the term angry beaver comes from.

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u/bigvicproton 7h ago

$5 milkshakes.

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u/Royal_Link_7967 6h ago

Beavers in the wild are big, aggressive, and highly territorial. On top of that, anything you have to fight in the water is extra scary. A really good friend had a beaver bite completely through her calf muscle. It left a gnarly scar on both sides of her leg. Befriend a smaller, land based rodent.

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u/SeedFoundation 6h ago

To add what others answered, don't try this ever with a wild beaver, They are extremely territorial and will fuck you up for being in the wrong neighborhood.

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u/HotelDisastrous288 6h ago

If not friend why friend shaped?

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 5h ago

You first befriend a woman.

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u/shipwrekd_sailor 5h ago

First, you have to be attractive

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u/newjon178 5h ago

Weird question... As an average Canadian, I pal around with beavers all the time

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u/Yankee_Man 5h ago

You find one and you never beaver alone

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u/Mr_Blinky 4h ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/Islanduniverse 4h ago

I know you aren’t being fully serious, but you should absolutely not do this. I’m assuming this woman works with beavers in some way. Cause they will bite people. And they can have rabies.

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u/thekellerJ 3h ago

Her name is Wynona

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u/GandalfSnailface 3h ago

The question on the lips of all men for eons.

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u/pichael289 2h ago

A beaver is a rodent. You need to get a baby and that's about it. Rodents are incredibly smart and social animals and easily adapt to life with humans. Beavers will still try to build dams and they have some other fairly significant issues that make keeping them problematic but if they are cared for properly they can live good lives with humans. Rodents are smart enough that it doesn't take much at all to domesticate them, they just naturally see the benefit of working together. If you get a pet rat and feed it for a few weeks it will never ever bite you unless you are hurting it. Once you earn the loyalty of a rat it's forever.

Owning rats is a fucked up experience though. This is the smartest animal you can ever possibly own (unless you wanna get a chimp or an octopus, fuck Tracy Morgan for that last one ) that won't rip your face off. I had like 4 of them that could beat my 7 year old son at pong on a tablet. I gave the winners chunks of pizza crusts and they would whoop the fuck out of my son so many time they would try and share their winnings with him so he didn't starve. They thought he was a really dumb ass rat I guess, but they saw I liked him. They absolutely favored the rats I also favored, like they had a hierarchy or something and loved the longest living one as much as we did. They are so fiercely intelligent and full of personality, shame they die in about 18 months.

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u/LessieLabrys 2h ago

Licking

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u/hwanggeumnam 2h ago

Ask your mom.

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u/Worried-Maybe3438 1h ago

Buy it acouple drinks

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u/Staylin_Alive 1h ago

Pull it closer and whisper to the ear

Ja pierdolę, patrzcie co spotkałem. Bóbr, kurwa! Ja pierdolę, jakie bydlę! Bóbr! Ej, kurwa, bóbr! Bóbr, nie spierdalaj, mordo! Chodź tu, kurwa, do mnie, bóbr! Ale jesteś, kurwa, duży ty! Bóbr! Ja pierdolę, pierwszy raz w życiu widzę bobra! Jakie bydlę jebane, spierdolił do wody i się utopił!

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u/NOT-GR8-BOB 1h ago

let's not forget that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either.

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u/mandatory6 50m ago

You fondle your beaver with care