This recent video of Mike Digout in Sascatchewan got my full attention. This beaver is working VERY hard to get this little scrubby weed. clamboring over those boulders has to be difficult with wet webbed feet. And if s/he slips into a crevice that beaver will never get their heavy body out. It’s so inaccessible and given his poor eyesight he can’t possibly be seeing it from the water.
That weed must smell fantastic!
I do remember faintly with our beavers there were a few rare scrub plants worth taking risks for. Most notably with our first mom beaver. One winter she went crazy for this little nondescript white flower and on election night she actually climbed UP the steep bank towards the county building and came face to face with a vote counter taking a coffee break.
They were both VERY surprised.
