BEAVERS WITH BENEFITS

heidi08 Beavers December 26, 2020

Ho Ho Ho! Was santa good to you? He brought us the most delicious roast beef we have ever had. And look today he is bringing Ben an Beavers back to the radio.

Mon 9 AM | Exchange Exemplar: The Many Benefits Of Beavers

The people of The Beaver State should know more about their official animal than anybody else. Alas, the years of trapping and hunting beavers for their fur reduced their numbers in Oregon greatly… and changed the landscape in the process.

Without beavers building all those dams to hold water for the dry months, things look different. We get a full beginner course in understanding the behaviors and benefits of beavers in Ben Goldfarb’s book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.

We return to our interview from 2018.

So you’ll need to find a station to listen on or wait until it’s over and download the program. I am very happy that they are running this again, because apparently beavers are the kind of lesson you have to hear over and over before you learn anything at all.

Meanwhile there is yet more fame for the rescue beaver. This from the Met magazine.

Rescued Baby Beaver Keeps Building “Dams” With RandomObjects From Rescuer’s House

Meet Beave, a rescue beaver who has over 700,000 TikTok followers. Beave was just three weeks old when he was found by a woman at the side of the road in May 2020. He was brought to Nancy (of Raising the Wild), a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist, who has committed to looking after him for at least two years. This is the amount of time it takes for adult beavers to teach their young everything they need to know to survive.

It’s exceptionally rare to find an abandoned baby beaver, as adult beavers tend to be highly protective of their young. This led Nancy to believe that Beave’s parents were likely killed by poachers. “I will be teaching Beave his basic life skills to survive after his release in two years,” Nancy tells My Modern Met. “Beave is bonded to me, so I am ‘mom’ to him.” Right now, Beave is extremely reliant on Nancy for food and comfort, and often prefers to sleep inside the house rather than outside. While he has the opportunity to swim in an outdoor pond, he often uses the “doggie door” to come inside when he feels the need to have contact.

Not poachers, Nancy. There is no wildlife park where beavers are protected and only criminals get to kill them. Every one with a piece of paper gets to kill them. The only reason you aren’t surrounded by orphans more often is that beavers are so dependent on their family that they die quickly when their families are taken away, or are adopted by siblings if any survive.

There’s lots of cuteness for you to behold, like Beave building with pillows and plungers in her living room. Click on the headline because he’s got his own youtube channel now. I’ll just leave you with this:

@beaverbabyfurryloveDam Building ##2 ##doitbold ##dialitforward ##animalsdoingthings ##HorrorTok ##fyp ##foryou ♬ original sound – Beave

BEAVE GETS FAMOUS FOR THE WRONG THING

Since his debut on NPR, Beave has gotten more famous. Now his number of followers on TIK TIK has erupted and he found his way onto People magazine of all places. For sure he is not a “people” but try telling him that.

And might as well know, if you haven’t tried wrapping presents with a beaver on your lap, you can hardly say you’re in the holiday spirit.

Meet Beave, the Internet’s Beloved Beaver Who’s Making It Impossible for His Owner to Wrap Gifts

The precious animal has gone viral on TikTok in adorable videos taken by his owner, Nancy Coyne, who is rehabilitating Beave at her residence in New York’s Hudson Valley,

according to NPR.Beave’s Instagram and TikTok accounts, the latter of which has racked up more than 835k followers, features entertaining footage of the animal constantly grabbing things around the house and adding them to a “dam pile.”

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“‘What’s it like to rehab a beaver?’ Well, apparently you can’t wrap Christmas presents when he needs attention,” Coyne captioned the video. “Beaver kits have a strong need for socialization and bonding time. A STRONG need.”

To which we at Worth A Dam would say of course! Who would bother wrapping presents when they have the greatest present of all sitting on their lap? Beavers are the very best christmas present the earth ever received. One that keeps on giving year after year. That doesn’t happen very often.

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Well well well, you’re going to have some cleaning up to do. And some advocacy to do. “Beave” has made you famous Nancy, and probably generated thousands of dollars in donations to your rehab agency. It’s time you give something back to her future and to all her relatives that. god willing, you never meet.

The next time someone sticks a camera in your face you should talk about why beavers matter, how they could save a drying planet and prevent the seventh extinction. Then feel free to show how cute they are again.

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Just so we’re clear. Tell your 800k followers that his family members were killed like millions of other beavers for causing an inconvenience, and if they were allowed to stick around beavers could improve the planet.

A BEAVER ON TIK TOK IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH

heidi08 Beaver Rehabilitation December 21, 2020

Happy Solstice!

It’s a fine winter Monday with a not so fine no-burn warning, but I have the christmas cheer you’ll need today. How about a famous beaver on Tik Tok reported by NPR? There is almost nothing about this story I don’t like. Enjoy.

Meet Beave, The Internet’s Most Famous Beaver

Leave it to a beaver to find new ways to build dams.

That much was revealed by Nancy Coyne, who’s rehabilitating a beaver in her home in New York’s Hudson Valley. Coyne’s videos of Beave the beaver on TikTok have quickly racked up millions of views.

Beave has taken to building dams out of whatever’s available around the house.

@beaverbabyfurryloveBeaves not damming in his pond yet. He’s to young. He does this in the house because it’s his safe place. Not yet with sticks either. ##fyp ♬ original sound – Beave

What I find fascinating about this story, and there’s a lot to love, is that Beave’s favorite place to dam is open doorways. When you think of it the doorway is the narrowest part of passage in your home. And beavers like to dam the narrowest part of the stream. So I guess it’s instinctive.

What do you think instinct feels like when you’re having it? Does it just seem like a really good idea you just thought of?

Coyne, who is a wildlife rehabilitator with Raising the Wild, makes clear that Beave is not a pet. She’s raising him for about two years because she suspects he was orphaned.

“I received a call, as I normally do for a lot of rehabs, and the woman said that she had found a baby beaver on the side of the road,” Coyne says. “So I said, ‘Of course you can bring it to me.’ “

When the woman arrived, “she was carrying this little box. So I opened up the box. And sure enough, there was a little baby beaver, no bigger than the size of a russet potato.”

Coyne’s task now is to help Beave learn what he needs to know so he can reenter the wild when he’s ready.

Things like swimming under the ice:

@beaverbabyfurryloveBeave was doing really good swimming under the ice. He was a little skeptical at first but figured out how to navigate. ##VivaCleanHacks ##fyp ♬ original sound – Beave

Look at how good he’s managing his life skills? She’s doing a pretty great job as surrogate. The one thing I disagree with is her thought on what it means when the kit whines. Being around children all my life I of course started out assuming that whining means the kit in question wanted something. Then when I actually watched our kits sampling tasting treats I learned otherwise.

When one kit has a branch and the other kit wants it, it’s not the one who wants it that makes that noise. It’s the one who HAS it. I don’t think it means “I want this”.

It means “I really like this. It’s delicious. And please don’t ask me to share!!!”

@beaverbabyfurryloveFor the followers that requested Beave just eating Kale. Enjoy! ##CancelTheNoise ##Catchphrases ##TheWildsChallenge ##OOTD ##fyp ##wildanimals ##wildlife ♬ original sound – Beave

If you want to thank Nancy for her help and donate to support other patients, you can make your donation here: Her account is being followed by millions and it’s a pretty great way to promote interest in our favorite animal. It seems like a pretty good place to share a little christmas spirit.

@beaverbabyfurryloveWhat makes Beaver Rehab so different than our other rehabs is the requirement for contact and nurturing. ##DiceRoll ##OPIObsessed ##SmallBusiness ##fyp

♬ original sound – Beave

Go look at her account for more fun videos and have yourself a merry little start to Christmas week,