For more than a decade Martinez lived with beavers in its brackish Alhambra Creek and watched the tides ebb and flow past their habitat. For more than a decade Martinez watched its beavers from the footbridges and heard their chewing sounds and the little whine children exclaim to parents and each other. For more than a decade this was as regular to us as birds flying and fish swimming.

Apparently all of Canada is shocked by it.

Are saltwater beavers a thing? Scientists observe Canadian critters in potentially deadly habitat

At the end of long day studying saltwater marshes in northern Washington State, scientist Greg Hood had a surprising encounter.

“I was walking down the channel, and the water was about … thigh-deep — and a beaver was swimming towards me,” said Hood, a senior research scientist with the Skagit River System Co-operative in La Conner, Wash.

Wildlife biologist David Bailey has looked at how beavers living in saltwater have been adapting in Tulalip, Wash.

Their dams are built lower than a normal dam, and disappear under the water at high tide, he told The Current.

He explained that they’re built like that to stop the power of the tide from breaking them apart. The doors to their lodges are also at different heights to accommodate the rise and ebb of the water.

Shocked I tell you! All of Canada is SHOCKED to learn of these shocking behaviors in salty beavers! This report makes it seem like they’re adapting to the habitat is some new thing, but I cannot imagine that’s the case. Remember beaver used to fill every stream, estuary and pond so I’m sure evolution taught them to adapt to this long, long, long ago.

And really, biologists should not bounce on lodges. Just sayin’. Sheesh.

Just a thought but you might want to rethink your headline. Because if you are calling it ‘deadly saltwater’ and you see beavers who aren’t dead, your words are either wrong or don’t mean what you think they mean.

Even I can’t complain very much because yesterday was a BANNER DAY for beavers. As in the city hung up the banners in the park and it officially looks like we’re having a festival!!! This time they used a truck and not a ladder.