There are so many rehab beaver videos out there lately I lose track, but I thought this one was really valuable. It shows a closeup look at a behavior I’ve never been fortunate enough to see in person,
At first I thought they were practicing making scent mounds but when you watch for a little you will see that what they’re actually doing is excavacing the pond to make it deeper and more pond like. They are truly tireless and father a full day’s work of this excavation you can imaging how different things will look,
, I can suddenly see how all this canals radiating out around ponds take shape. Bob Arnebeck told me once that he thought to a beaver watching another beaver work was infectious. Impossible to resist joining in. The ultimate peer pressure or for the ethologists out there Fixed Action Pattern.
Watching this I can see what he meant,,,
