This week has been bizarrely kind to beavers. First a glorious end-of-trapping article and now this? Someone up there must like us. Prepare to issue high-pithed squeal in 3-2-1:

Now I’m not surprised there are plenty of beaver orphans in Oklahoma, but it’s rather surprising that 1) some pipeline workers would stop and rescue her on their way home, 2) that someone is on hand with enough education to care for her so well and 3) that the news story correctly reports that the beaver is “Too buoyant to dive” instead of saying wrongly as they usually do that she can’t swim,

Orphaned baby beaver getting nursed back to health at Noble rescue

Wildcare Oklahoma needs lots of thank yous for taking on this little patient. Especially for the next couple of years. Also that’s seriously the cutest baby beaver footage I have ever seen, and believe me, that’s saying something.

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And for the grownups in the room, there’s more a more thoughtful discussion of beavers On Utah public radio, who revisited their earlier interview with Ben Goldfarb this winter. It’s one of his best because Utah asks all the right questions.