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Beavers, meanwhile, are similarly community-minded, warning other beavers and any other animals within earshot of approaching danger with a watery slap of their tail. Canadians have ice hotels, Carnaval, skating, and ice fishing to get us through the winter. Beavers have lodges—a unique way to survive the cold. Beaver colonies create dams to provide them with deep, still water in which to build a lodge—a truly impressive structure of trees, rocks and mud.
Beavers are monogamous, mating for life. Each beaver colony normally consists of two parental adults, the yearlings born the previous year, and the newborn kits.
Just prior to the birth of the young, two-year-olds are forced to leave the parental colony and create their proper lodge and dam. Beavers breed in January—February, have a gestation period of three and a half months and give birth to two to four young. Beavers may live up to 12 years in the wild. Beavers inhabit forested regions across Canada and north to the treeline , but are infrequent on the prairies.
Typically, they occupy slow-flowing streams, where they construct dams of sticks, logs, debris and mud. The beaver is one of the only mammals, other than humans, that can manufacture its own environment. Beavers often build canals for floating logs to build dams. These dams maintain a water supply to protect their lodges, which are built of the same materials as the dams, and have entrances below water level and ramps leading up to living quarters above water.
Beavers also eat herbaceous pond vegetation. Lodges are anchored in the mud of ponds and are made of intricately interlaced branches and stems of trees. Mud and grass are plastered around the outer walls.
When the sub-zero temperatures of winter come to freeze a prison of ice around the perimeter of the lodge, it is all but impermeable to such predators as lynx, wolf and wolverine.
Beavers are superb swimmers and can stay under water for up to 15 minutes. When alarmed, they slap the water with their tails, warning others to take refuge under water. Beavers are primarily nocturnal, carrying out most activities from dusk to dawn.
They do not hibernate, but regularly leave the lodge throughout the winter to obtain food from a submerged stash. The stash is anchored nearby below the frozen surface. Beavers appear to be strongly territorial, being aggressive towards intruders. To advertise the limits of their territory, they create strategically placed mud-scent mounds.
They apply their musk, castoreum, to the mounds, from the pear-shaped castor glands located in the anal region of both sexes.
They are known for using their teeth to chew through threes; a single beaver can fell trees up to 40 cm in diameter in a single year! One thing you may not know about beavers is that their teeth never stop growing, and gnawing on trees helps keep their teeth from becoming overgrown.
When early explorers first landed in North America, they quickly realized that they could greatly profit from hunting beavers and trading their pelts. The pelts could be used to make felt hats, a popular fashion in Europe at the time, and soon fur traders were selling beaver pelts in Europe for 20 times the original purchase price!
Because pelts were so lucrative, it was inevitable they the beaver as a symbol would become so tied to Canada.
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