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There are more than seventy five ever so it's available the bench listen to the committed podcast with new episodes. Each Wednesday, on the I heard, radio app apple pod casts or wherever you get your part cast Welcome to stuff. You should know a production of Iheart radios have stuff work, hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W Chuck Brian over there and there's Jerry somewhere, and this is stuff you should know the Orange incisors additions that you're gonna make a bad naked gun joke now no, it did run through my head over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, it's hard, though, when you're at our age yeah- and you saw those movies for sure, yeah damn joke them. Well, I mean it's a naked gun joke for PC command, so this kind

eyes and I think a little bit with our porcupine episode. and beavers are you know their porcupine ask in some ways: think ties and even more door. Wetlands Upso, which gave version idea for this episode, you know yeah absolutely I mean I'm pretty excited about this one. I think beavers are about as great as it gets, because they're so studious and they also bend the world to their will. They shape things the way that they want them, and I like that about them, yeah, and I also love their familial aspects which will get to all this stuff we were talking about, as is the largest rodent in North America, which really, them. I guess. But yes such a rodent, it's not a bad word: there's, so many great rodents, beavers porcupines. What squirrels? I know you

everything was with squirrels. I know I like squirrels now mom and I and um sometimes comes with us to chase squirrels across the street in the park and feed them peanuts. We give them peanuts. I is like the kind of them off after MO chases them up a tree, but the squirrels across the way will actually come to you and eat peanuts out of your hand, so I'm kind of on squirrels. Now Moma love, squirrels, chipmunks mice to monks too yeah. Tens are okay, Chuck there are fewer terrible rodents and the only ones I can think of that are terrible. Are those are scaring me city sewer rats are you. Ok, rodents are all right up with rodents, I guess the rabbits and don't think they're rodents, they are. He like a hamster sure hamsters. I don't know if rabbits, road internally. It makes sense that they would be. But it's what rodya dot com says. Ok, Mohune minded disagree.

We're not talking about rabbits. We're not talking about sewer rats were talking about beavers and again. Beavers are amazing. Amazing animals and, like you said kind of related to porcupines, in that there is what you can call all world a new world beavers, but there's really just two species, and one is, north and one is found in Eurasia and it's easy peasy, no fuss, no muss. These are the beaver better alive on the planet yeah, so we ve got the American Beaver they weigh between fifteen and sixty five pounds, which is very large. if you ve ever seen a large beaver and the wild. It's. It's not scary, because you know and we'll get to whether or not their their dangerous there really not, but it's it's such large thing that you're, like wow they're, bigger than I thought usually

through my head. When I see Beaver yeah, I mean sixty or thirty no yeah. Sixty five pounds is about thirty kilograms, a big beaver. It is a big beaver and I had to convert kilograms kilograms for at least our friends in Canada, because beavers National emblem. They have beaver on their nickel here, which is amazing. Elected just makes me look all all much much more know so for that Sixty pounds you're going to be a couple of feet: long, twenty three, that's forty inches long, that's without the tail. Don't count the tail when you're measuring a beaver. The tale will talk a bit more about it, but they're anywhere from to I'll benches. Eurasian, you're about the same size, May you can be a little bit smaller. Oh I've got bigger. Well, you can be. Little smaller on, as I think the range is bigger so you can be down in the twentieth, poundage wise, but up to the seventies, poundage wise. Any you're, probably a little bit longer and

skull and your tail are going to be narrower or your Nearer in your skull is smaller, so yeah, but that tail is what everybody understands and they see a beard. Just like were the porcupine in its coils, a beaver in its tail. Is there just synonymous? Everybody recognizes a beaver because of his tail. Also the tails helped make it cute. Even though, if you zoomed in and took a really close look at the tail, you'd be like gross, you think yeah, it's scaly! It's got sparse, coarse, hair associated with it. It looks like a black jack, that some old Timey, like rafts, would beat you up with an yet it's one of the most amazed appendages any animal has? As for its like, a swiss army knife foot for tails, they're, very useful and a lot of ways they, obviously, if with their swimming and beavers by the way swim. Five to seven miles an hour? They have little web feed, they have

They can close their ear holes in their nose holes and they can roll their a film over their eyeballs nictitating membrane. Yeah two may So if there are gonna be swimming than that tail is gonna, be as a rudder, and as a propeller, its so if there on land, it's going to act as a little kickstand at times yeah when they and upon their back legs. They use their tail, the kind of lean against short balance. It's a big one for sure they also- and this is a sure sign that you have frightened slash, upset a beaver. There will slapped the water with there in impart to frighten you away to say, like don't mess with me, but also to warn other beavers because- like you're, saying saying familial: they are actually fairly social animals and they live in family family. So they would want want to warn like the wife and the kids back at the lodge yeah, here's

thing. I been spent a lot of time at a lake here in Georgia, and I have heard some which I thought was a beaver tail smash But I'm not sure because I didn't see it. I have seen evidence of beavers eating tree stuff, oh yeah, yeah and which will get- and one day when I was in the lake I saw a mammal. head coming toward me, and I don't know if it was a. We also have river otters, so I don't know if it was an otter or Beaver. But either way it was. It was alive. Head, and even though I know that they weren't gonna, come after me when that thing Under the water view, site. What where we were where's again? What do you do it? Where is he coming at me or not. Were you swimming in the lake at the time America, as others large mammal head. You know don't under. I could feel you

it was a measure Helen beavers can hold, their arab flautist can hold their breasts, but beavers can hold their breath for about fifteen minutes, which is pretty remarkable. I thought I'd make its remarkable too. I mean really just goes to like to tell adapted they are for life in the water, and They are mammals, so they have long so they need to breathe air outside of the water but yeah the fact that they can hold their breath for fifteen minutes there. They have Nick Detail membranes that cover their eyes like little goggles, so they can see in work under water. They spend a significant amount of their time, underwater, in fact their most protected in water. That's where they can move the fastest. They can swim pretty fast way faster than they can waterline land sure and a lot of their predators won't necessarily come in to especially deep water after them, so when there in the water there at their there there at in their happy place You can imagine when they die for fifteen minutes

in her swimming around. What do you think this fish think who comes a beaver? Do they know or are they just like what in the world? Is that big hairy thing? I would guess that they, I would like to think they know I like to think of community of animals or ecosystems. Just they know each other. Yes, they know, each other. They know each other foibles. They come to accept one another. You know they have their other things, belabour foibles, they always kind. I you know a day in the end that when somebody, you know like human, comes in and tries to screw things up, fill all band together and you know raise money for the community center so that the developer can't buy it So if you are a north american Beaver, you can live. Much anywhere in North America, except her, the desert, because you want water around you're, probably gonna, be near pond or lake remarks, our swamp or river, eurasian, beavers use,

of all over Europe and Asia, but they were hunted over hunted, because at one and in time wearing Beaver pelts and Beaver Hats was really high fashion. So now there only found in Germany, France, Poland, Can the Navy Southern Scandinavia and central Russia you're alive, Those are because they were reintroduced. The areas like I believe Germany had to have their population reintroduce cause there into extinction and how many neighbors used to be here like four hundred million. That's. The estimate is that in North America, prior to colombian contact were there were about four hundred million beavers and they were hunted down to near extinction within the hundreds of thousands from what I saw and were luckily held back. from the brink, and when I say luckily, I don't just mean for the beavers, but I mean for the the planet as far as North America is concerned, because, one of the things that we're still are,

but have come to realise that the beavers are probably the most useful species on the planet, because their one of the few species, their altars their environment, is radically as they do here. What are they called there? A keystone species he stones, because when they are present, biodiversity thrives and when beavers are removed from an area. Biodiversity suffers the verse, makes life better in richer? For Entirely other animals and species just because of what they do and how they do it all right, that's a great place to take him. And I say when we come back- we talk about the two fundamental for crumbs on which ever life is based, the dance. In the large, ok

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for twenty five percent off the alright we're back and there are a couple of things you know you heard busies a beaver. It's it's! I don't know that but I think it is almost universally agreed that that phrase came about because beavers are in fact very busy and they work work work all day, long building their homes and bill dams are there you're called lodges, and you've, probably seen if you ever in hiking and stuff in America, you probably seen to re lodge by river or lake, it's a little little dumb Out of sticks and grasses and moss and mud. Maybe you thought alone. but which had built it m hate him. like a little, what would he call, which is houses, which is here,

I think, there's a cottage. Oh sure I think, there's a different name, but which is this is an aim for those I thought so now I'm gonna think so, which Maybe I'm thinking of Cubans hausa day which No there's a word. We just. I just watched the witch the movie again, I think, there's a word for it, and I love that- and I might be my favorite movie- We did a movie crush round table on that by the way it was really good. So that's the guy who did the lighthouse? Isn't it yeah? Robert e God bless that man? I can't Wait to see his Viking movie too man I can imagine So the Beaver Lodge is you know about it, feet wide a few feet high either on the banks these ponds or on Lake Shores they have. This is one of my favorite parts. Many of them have a little underwater backdoor. Yet it is like sort of

ski in chalet if you're snow, skiing yeah, which makes sense because again they spend so much time in the water, but also protects them from terrestrial predators because they get into the water and escape when predators like at their door. Yeah- and You know this is they're nocturnal, they don't hibernate, but most of this actions going on at night and everyone pitches in not the whole family of increased. Yet they live with their children, till there about to end and a Beaver Lodge, you might find a mom and dad who were monogamous mates for life and might have their three two year old, almost two year old children, and then they might have their little grandbabies, yeah because when they have their their babies, which are called kits, which, admittedly, is It is curious, porky pets now, but their cute by do just save me, press pause right now, everybody on go, look up. Some Davy fever, pings little dales among other key, so they

baby. Beavers is one of the reasons why they're so cute? It's because they do they stick around for so long as they're there. They stick around so long because you're so cute, that's what I mean to say, but they do stay stay part of the family unit and help like work on the family, lodge in Damn until talk to you when they wander off and then at three. They start to mate, but they build their own lodge at age. To and from what I've read is usually very clumsy. It's not in the best place. The thoroughly, and so they kind of learn as they go, but they also learned their family unit first, on which I think is super cute. It is I think we should talk about dams, arming the lodges, hazard are cool and it's a great place to live if your beaver, but the day, is where they really that's, they get their their shining moment as a species that really helps out the environment, because they help create these wetlands Dante

yes, so so a beaver will move into an area. That's dry is a bone fits maybe cropland maybe timberland. There is nodded, all flooded, there's no pond or wetland or anything like that. They say this can be better, and so they fine like a of moving water like a streamer, a brook, maybe a crick, maybe a creek somethin like that, and they stop it. They they build a dam and they build the stance of the water backs up behind it and flood. this area and turns it into a wetland, and they do this not to irk humans or just for fun. They do it because they're altering the ecosystem to better suit themselves. Like I said

They survive much better. When they're in the water they move faster, they can work faster, so they actually make this ecosystem into an aquatic ecosystem where before there wasn't an aquatic ecosystem, and they do it all by building this dam and the way that they build dams is magnificent in and of itself yeah, so you know you got your damn base the foundation, physically, where you're gonna, use, mud and gravel that you get the stream and you can have worked together as a family and with your tail in their pushing. I say we were before the sudden and your push This modern gravel up from the bottom stream and let's say it's a place where the crick is running a little bit too fast and there's too much flow they're gonna say you know what we're gonna take. These sticks, we're gonna pile these things up, all along the bottom until basically

so it's like building from the ground up until they're strong enough to to stay in place, but they're so good. using their hands in their so strong. He said you know sixty sixty five pounds or about thirty kilograms, their mostly muscle to their rights, really strong little little rodents, especially for being like herbivores. they're, like those vague in body builders, but they can take they'll, take sticks and like plant in the bottom of this streamer, whatever, instead forming a latticework that they weave in between and Philip with mud, to really stop up some. You know fast moving current than that that light That's the level of manipulation that they're they're doing they're, building a dam that they they eventually successfully back up the flow of water from which- I've tried to do that before and it's hard to do Buddy Scotty, I who you know we went camping once in California, and it was

I was young and in the film industry, so those a lot of time between jobs and we just decided to stay and keep staying and think we ended up sitting. Eleven or twelve days, smile and We wanted to build a waterfall next door campsite, so it sounded better, so we spent day he's in days with sticks in big rocks, and to re route and change the river, and it was some of them This work has ever done. In doing that at like forty eight inches long and only sixty five pounds so they're they're, not only building the thing up together, a little kids and their child helping like bringing up, sticks and mud thing Pamas this okay and they say yeah added to the pile and then once their done. They there like there's a periodic like inspection, that go on yeah as they gotta make sure that it stays strong Cosette current. It just keeps going and it's very easy to weaken the right. Stick loose,

and all a sudden. It starts crumbling down, so they basically inspect these things. Every so often in check it for leaks and bring in mud and patch it up. Just like it's like a human might, do I that they'd they do daily maintenance on it. That one way to tell whether beavers or in the areas too, to find their damn like a little minor hole in it and then go back and look the next day and if its patched up the beavers around there, and giving you the middle finger right exactly like okay, we're here, you figured it out. Please leave our damn alone, but yeah things are like water tight for the most part. They they allow very little water through. I guess from what I can tell us much water is the Beaver wants, through, like they're, very wilfully, deliberately constructed structures that will turn a dry area into a wetland, and when that happens, the

one of the things that they used to build the stuff with their trees around the area and they can they use their teeth. Those really really sharp, strong teeth that I said are like kind of oranges at the very beginning, the episode and their very their orange because they have so much iron in them which actually gives them that much more strength. Yeah they're, up to an inch long. There super strong they they actually sharpen as they now on trees? So it's not like it'll dull their teeth. actually sharpens them, and the other thing you're doing as their eating. That tree are one of the few mammals. Or maybe the only mammal that can actually digest cellulose. Well porcupines can too remember: oh that's right yeah they can. They can digest cellulose because they probably have a very similar kind of bacteria that helps helps digest it for them, but they digest a lot of the cell that they eat, and it's really hard to break down normally for mammals, though you have it like you

essentially creating these wetlands, their preventing erosion, they are helping to purify the water all its let's talk about with the dams can do ok chuck. I It's amazing there. It's it's like a little environmental coalition that goes into the woods to make things better. Yes in the wetlands episode I said something like like a beaver creates the equivalent of some, like a five million dollar wastewater treatment plan, or something like that, I could not find that again to save my life, but I think that was roughly it. They create this this that creates the artificial, artificial wetland and in doing so it filters water because it slows the watered down so much that the stuff can trickle down to the bottom, it, in a normal terrestrial piece of land into a wetland, so aquatic plants come and they ve also found out that? Not only does it filter water like sediment and particles, it also is capable

handling farm run off fertilizer, which is really pernicious because you know when that fertilizer makes his waned to watersheds and wetlands. It creates algae blooms which suck up all the oxygen and kill off a bunch of fish right, which is a big problem. They figured out that Beaver dams actually work against that by by fixing nitrogen excess nitrogen from fertilizer It prevents it from flowing bacteria chomps down on it and releases. It is nitrogen gas into the atmosphere and the stuff the bacteria doesn't eat, floats down to the bottom gets eaten up by aquatic. plants which, when they die lock it into the sediment so this farm run off. That's a huge problem as it stands is actually mitigated by Beaver Dam. They've recently found out talk about. Just what kind of impact has on who lives there. It is

like an invitation to to nature that says: hey we gotta go going over here if you're, an invertebrate that doesn't feel like they have a home you're, come here. If you're a new species, a bird that didn't think that you would flourish year time too change that attitude. If you're a duck or a goose you can nest on top of our large, because our largest super warm because it's full of beavers, You can nest on top of there and stay warm and especially If it's out in the middle of a pond or something you can be safer, what else if you are a woodpecker in your like all these trees or to healthy there's no insects in em. Well, just wait because What'd timberland, doesn't stand up very well to standing water, and so some of those trees die. Often they get. they provide housing for insects which in turn provides food for the woodpeckers, what it would if you're moose? Let's say

no good for you right now. You're gonna love. This severe moves so buckler a b because the Beaver is turned it into a wetland. It's now an aquatic environment and moose like aquatic plants, they grow on the edge of like marshy areas, so these plants that work there before our suddenly there for the moose and it gets even better because when the Beaver family. Finally, like is in a move. moved away or they die off in there the whole thing it's abandoned, the eventually the dams going to break without ray their maintenance and when they had as the ever the the places gonna go back to how it was before, but it's gonna back to better than it was before, because think about all that nitrogen that was fixing the sediment. All the erosion there was prevented and all of a sudden you have a lush beautiful meadow that dear can come eat on yeah. It's pretty!

nothing like they. They help out all these animals and introduce all these new animals who can live together and then once it's done, it becomes a flowery meadow for dear. They leave it better than it was when they first got their amazing It is amazing. The problem is that humans frequent. Have much different plans for those same areas and an viviani follow them. I say we take a break and we come back and talk about that after a break. Like I just said what do you think answer now yes, okay, this episode is brought. You buy IBM today, every ends, matters more than ever before, because whether it's about health deliveries or finance something's just can't wait, that's

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trees that you grow and if beavers move into your area, and they bid the damn those dams are effective. This isn't like a little puddle we're talking about making create basic. Basically, like lakes ponds like enough Miss wetlands and when you have staining water over timberland those trees are not there, not aquatics. freeze that your growing there, so they actually die again members they die off and bugs move in and woodpeckers eat the bugs. Well, if you're trying to make money off of those trees, you don't really want the beavers to do that to you. Berlin! No, and I think how many tens of millions of dollars thinking twenty million dollars. A year or something I will Ed's, I think more than that I think I saw Alabama alone suffered, like fourteen million dollars in law, really timberland, just Alabama from Beaver damage anyhow, he that it'll it'll flooding for crops it can make,

what was ordinarily, very stable bridge or road, now unstable and cause damage to roads and stuff. Like TAT, like said reading the soil that was holding it up just fine before yeah, The good news is back in the old days they just you know they would just call as many beavers as they could to get rid of them. These. Is- and this is kind of a weird stat, but it says seventy five percent of of ever human conflict. can be resolved without trapping or killing the beaver. So yeah, I take it as in they will somehow move them along in a way. That's humane. Well, I none of that even the case. I think that more often than not the first question is: is the Beaver really causing a problem or is it that there's? and they created this does wetland and there wasn't there before and you're taking it as a problem and thus the the the thing that I'm seeing that the seems to be like the new paradigm for viewing beaver

As far as their relationship to humans, it's like really what's what's the problem, if its? Yes, there damage cropland, okay, that's a problem. If they're killing timberland that's a problem, if the washing out a road. That's the problem, but if they just created of wetland that wasn't there before in your property, were you bought the property in it was dry and now there's a wetland there that you didn't plan for? Is it really a problem, and I think that's what they're saying is that seventy five percent of the people who are asked that question will say Actually I guess it's not. I'm gonna learn to love the Beaver, love Beaver. Yeah and you know, really gets my dandler up when I this lake that go to their facebook page. There people knew now people post like hey, it looks like I have a beaver eating on my trees, and you know these Some of these people literally, are like yep I'll, take care of that with my twelve gauge and a like you don't never understood the people who want to move to nature to kill the nature.

Yeah, it's just its and I have seen beaver damage and I love it. I welcome it. so yeah you get all you want. You would be one of the seventy five percent, who would say like it's no problem What are you probably won't even say it was an issue now you and even be asked a question which is no from the outset that it's not a problem. I called out to be, be beavering. Yeah, that's right, Arizona, Beaver, and so and we know now that, like they are a keystone species, are so important that it's great the impression I'm getting, is kind of like now it's not really a problem, so you can't touch that Beaver. Don't shoot that Beaver you're going to get in big trouble, depending on where you are for shooting a beaver when it was in creating a problem which I love cause they should be protected because again, not just the fact that they were almost honey. Doing thinking they provide so many really important services. I don't even know if we talked about

there are two others chuck they prevent flooding three others. They prevent flooding by slowing the flow of water, so things downstream from the damn don't get overwhelmed as much three, this stuff in the damp helps recharge aquifers below, whereas before this little stream tree over over. It was doing jack for the now now the is getting recharged on the daily third one is they provide natural fire breaks with you or even forest fires. There the feeling when we're done we're going to be mad, because there were like three more things we didn't think about. That happens to me a lot drives me nuts, here are some of the things that people do try and do, though, to mitigate their what they perceive as their beaver problems. Yet you know because they they do create some problems. As far as human settlements is concerned, they will use beaver pipes, and this is basically plastic pipes, that

you put in a beaver damn to rout that water to where you want. It helps controlled the flooding that be risking cause. Yes, like so long that the beavers like it, it doesn't think to go to the end. The pipes right sees that there's something and it's damn it probably dams up around the pipe, but that still lets the flow of water go through. This kind of cool. They will build a pre damn. If they want beavers away from a certain place and in a different place in they'll, basically say: hey, look over here. We get this fence, it's like a for your new home right, it's you got of your work is already done. Want you to start here so they'll do that had a beaver says hot dog. and then another thing is to design their all these two tons of offences. There's the pre damn fence it encourages them to come, and then there is another kind of fence to keep.

from building there in the first place, yellows those called called Beaver deceivers, and they are it's just basically so like a culvert, is a frequent place that a likes to damn up and that's where it causes a lot of damage because culverts are held meant to help drain water to keep roadways stable in that kind of thing right, so you would just basically put offence radiating out from either side of the Culver outward at an angle, kind of like in a v shape, and then those two fences are connected by another fence between the two just click a triangle that ends in the covert. The key is, if you make those it is long enough. I think twelve feet, men, or something like that. The beaver is going to be like nuts to this this isn't even worth it. I'm not going to try to build a damn here or if it does start to build a dam. It's going to give up eventually and your Culver is saved without the Beaver being hurt, or harm the beaver. Just moves on to a different spot that it likes right,

And if you have a tree that you really love that you see has a beaver activity, you can wrap chicken wire around the base of it. If you want on there's, also some special paint that you can paint on the trunk that apparently be don't like, if you want to protect a certain tree, it's like the nail biting stuff bit. Oh my god, somebody wrote in about that what did they say? I didn't see them. I think they were just asking like what it was. I'm sure they still have it, but I don't know what it was. I believe, member Lee Press on nails. I think they had a sideline in that stuff. I'm sure it was. It's probably just like clear nail polish yeah, but it tastes like garbage yeah that tasted really bad taste like what I thought it was like hot. No, it was bitter okay yeah. I wouldn't like that at all. That was very better. I don't think we mentioned the. I mean we should talk a little bit. We talked about the kits. They do live in. Large groups are very social, they're called colonies, and they

made in the winner during the first few months of the year, The eurasian, Beaver, just AIDS. For sixty two hundred, eight days and have one to six little babies and the American Beavers just eight from a hundred to about invite your hundred seven days again. before little kids and they are weaned around two weeks of age, whereas the eurasian Beavers wended about six weeks of age right and so Chuck, I saw that beavers tend to live. Like you said, there are monogamous, typically as other they live about ten to fifteen, years in the wild, which is so cute, but you can also build a pretty pretty respectable dam in that time too, and I think, actually the largest dam that they've ever seen is they they think it is from many many many generations of beaver staying in working on it in Alberta, right yeah, it's huge and I guess everyone just got in and on the party. Yet they think since the seventies that

beavers have been keeping very appropriate, yeah pretty fun and those the by the way can swim about just one day after they're born swimming around right. So like we, and I think they are- I think that they become sexually mature matured aged three and around that time, they're going to sir producing something called cast storm or historian right, yeah. and cast story. I M is like a lot of people, think that it's like the origin of castor oil. It's not credits from the castor Bein. I believe this stuff is like the opposite of castor oil, actually like tastes and smells like really good yeah. I mean it's. It's used its the FDA says you can eat it. It's one of those ass, remember generally recognised as safe ingredients and the thing is others is not a lot of it. It's it's! It's very tufted and its a work to go out there and try and extract this

ingredient ingredient from the tail right. I think it says about two hundred and ninety two pounds annually total right. Imagine it's expensive. It is very expensive and you can still find in some places. I some I I think I saw you that Is it she knows, perfume Oh, what is it called core you see, I believe, is still uses it, and it's labour ingredient to because it's like your things just We recognise the safe, but it also advocates vanilla raspberry flavour. That's what it tastes like to humans and they think that there are some ice cream out there that still may use that like old timers crimes that use Beaver Cast story might Beaver sent its what it is its Beaver mosque. Yet just so happens that Beaver Musk tastes like raspberry, vanilla to humans.

But they were hunted for a really long time, which kind of lead to this one. Myth didna detestable myth yeah up until about the eleven hundreds of people, thought beavers aid or bit off their own testicle, apparently this has its origins in ancient Egypt and EVIL Europe continued, where I think it does that what they said was beavers knew that hunters were coming after them because of that Kastoria, which originated in their testicles and None of this is true, I think their testicles. They don't even have hangers right they're located inside them which automatically disqualifies it, but also so the beavers were basically saying like it. No you can't Historians I can't have it anymore either, I would rather bite off my own testicles than let you have them

Maybe it's a survival mechanism like they thought the country would leave them alone if they didn't have testicles, but maybe no that's not true at all. Then there is one other great fact check that I think you gotta take to take us The yeah, the Pope in the sixteenth century, said. You know what that's that tail was pretty scheme, We then they sure in the water a lot So during the fasting days, go ahead and eat that Beaver close enough to a fish, yep exactly qualifies as a fish, so you can the Beaver back in the sixteenth century, thanks to the Pope, it right as far as we know I teased early if they were dangerous there they're not be are very nice little fellas and, ladies and if there is a beaver that attack somebody, it both make the news, because a rare and probably means there really sick, you

they, like all mammals, can get rabies, but, like porcupines, I get the impression that that's one of the few diseases you can get from a beaver. The thing is: if they are rabid and they do charge at you, they can do some serious damage with those teeth like they can chew. Through three foot diameter trees, they can bite through your skin, and so, if you get too close to a beaver, can have bad effects is just like you said it's extremely rare. but I saw at least one guys died from from them in the last decade or so right. There was this bad luck, So a guy in Belarus was trying to get a picture of a beaver and got to close in the thing bitter. in his thigh and bit through for moral artery and the guy bled to death from a Beaver attack, he died ass, bad leaver attack. His family is to live like

for the rest of their lives, Beaver attack. I know- and there's been some other text too, but yeah. I think they just kind of give beavers bad name unwarrantably. Don't you shot through the leg and your two blame you give beavers the bad name. Oh goodness, hide Well, I guess that's it for beavers, that's that's it! I'm glad we finally got to do this, one them alone, yeah do their beaver thing. Beaver in like Chuck as babers gonna, be If you want to know more about Beavers Olympic God, you go find some beavers and study them from afar. because they are natures, miracles and since I said that, it's time for listener, mail, all right, I'm to call this braver angels, hey guys, listen to Europe. Episode on swing stay you mentioned the dangerous level of polarization going on between.

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