This is turning out to be an amazing week for beavers. Not only does this excellent review talk about biodiversity and engineering, it stresses the way that beavers build and maintain communities.

We learned something about that first hand 18 years ago and remind ourselves of it every summer.

‘Hoppers,’ Disney-Pixar’s latest animated adventure, features beavers as animal superheroes

“When we learned all about beavers and that they create these ponds that can sustain biodiversity, you’re like, ‘My goodness! They’re amazing!'” Chong said, adding that beavers are basically engineers, finding what they do incredible.

There’s a lot going on in “Hoppers,” including a message and plenty of surprises.

Beavers create community. Who knew?