Happy Solstice!
It’s a fine winter Monday with a not so fine no-burn warning, but I have the christmas cheer you’ll need today. How about a famous beaver on Tik Tok reported by NPR? There is almost nothing about this story I don’t like. Enjoy.
Meet Beave, The Internet’s Most Famous Beaver
Leave it to a beaver to find new ways to build dams.
That much was revealed by Nancy Coyne, who’s rehabilitating a beaver in her home in New York’s Hudson Valley. Coyne’s videos of Beave the beaver on TikTok have quickly racked up millions of views.
Beave has taken to building dams out of whatever’s available around the house.
@beaverbabyfurryloveBeaves not damming in his pond yet. He’s to young. He does this in the house because it’s his safe place. Not yet with sticks either. ##fyp♬ original sound – Beave
What I find fascinating about this story, and there’s a lot to love, is that Beave’s favorite place to dam is open doorways. When you think of it the doorway is the narrowest part of passage in your home. And beavers like to dam the narrowest part of the stream. So I guess it’s instinctive.
What do you think instinct feels like when you’re having it? Does it just seem like a really good idea you just thought of?
Coyne, who is a wildlife rehabilitator with Raising the Wild, makes clear that Beave is not a pet. She’s raising him for about two years because she suspects he was orphaned.
“I received a call, as I normally do for a lot of rehabs, and the woman said that she had found a baby beaver on the side of the road,” Coyne says. “So I said, ‘Of course you can bring it to me.’ “
When the woman arrived, “she was carrying this little box. So I opened up the box. And sure enough, there was a little baby beaver, no bigger than the size of a russet potato.”
Coyne’s task now is to help Beave learn what he needs to know so he can reenter the wild when he’s ready.
Things like swimming under the ice:
@beaverbabyfurryloveBeave was doing really good swimming under the ice. He was a little skeptical at first but figured out how to navigate. ##VivaCleanHacks ##fyp♬ original sound – Beave
Look at how good he’s managing his life skills? She’s doing a pretty great job as surrogate. The one thing I disagree with is her thought on what it means when the kit whines. Being around children all my life I of course started out assuming that whining means the kit in question wanted something. Then when I actually watched our kits sampling tasting treats I learned otherwise.
When one kit has a branch and the other kit wants it, it’s not the one who wants it that makes that noise. It’s the one who HAS it. I don’t think it means “I want this”.
It means “I really like this. It’s delicious. And please don’t ask me to share!!!”
@beaverbabyfurryloveFor the followers that requested Beave just eating Kale. Enjoy! ##CancelTheNoise ##Catchphrases ##TheWildsChallenge ##OOTD ##fyp ##wildanimals ##wildlife♬ original sound – Beave
If you want to thank Nancy for her help and donate to support other patients, you can make your donation here: Her account is being followed by millions and it’s a pretty great way to promote interest in our favorite animal. It seems like a pretty good place to share a little christmas spirit.
@beaverbabyfurryloveWhat makes Beaver Rehab so different than our other rehabs is the requirement for contact and nurturing. ##DiceRoll ##OPIObsessed ##SmallBusiness ##fyp
Go look at her account for more fun videos and have yourself a merry little start to Christmas week,
