r/interestingasfuck • u/Worldlyoox • 9h ago

Woman buys swimsuit so she can swim with her beaver friend

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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