The beaver friend who went to med school at North Western has been closely following the fate of the Illinois Lincoln Park beaver and now connected with a current med student who also happens to be a beaver fan. She recently took this photo and put it on wikipedia to highlight the plight of the urban beaver.
Along with the judiciously chosen quote.
| Few sightings of wild animals in Lincoln Park have caused as much excitement as when a beaver was spotted swimming across the middle of North Pond one winter day. Being a creature more associated with wilderness streams and rivers a beaver inside the city limits was unusual indeed. | ” | |
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— Scott Holingue, Tales from an Urban Wilderness, 1994
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The prescription for those beavers is obviously “take two physicians and call me in the morning.” I’m hoping for good things for the Lincoln Park Beavers.
From the ‘worst of times category’ I offer this recent news report about the resurgence of the use of Castoreum in French perfume. (Not for the faint of heart)
