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    North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species, along with the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber). It is native to North America...
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    Beavers (genus Castor) are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (Castor canadensis)...
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    Eurasian beaver, but triangular in the North American beaver.[citation needed] The Eurasian beaver has shorter shin bones than the North American species...
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    The beaver drop was a 1948 Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers from Northwestern Idaho to the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho...
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    The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is an invasive species in Tierra del Fuego, at the southern end of Patagonia. Tierra del Fuego is a large...
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    on land and in water have been recorded for both Eurasian beavers and North American beavers. The trademark sharp front teeth of both species pose a particular...
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    Castoreum (redirect from Beaver musk)
    the castor sacs of mature beavers. Beavers use castoreum in combination with urine to scent mark their territory. Both beaver sexes have a pair of castor...
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    porcupine family. It is the second largest rodent in North America after the North American beaver (Castor canadensis). The porcupine is a caviomorph rodent...
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    A beaver dam or beaver impoundment is a dam built by beavers; it creates a pond which protects against predators such as coyotes, wolves and bears, and...
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    The Thirsty Beaver is a bar (sometimes referred to as a dive bar) surrounded by an apartment complex, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The...
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    weight to a North American river otter) are hibernating. Remains of the much larger North American beaver have been found in North American river otter...
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    Flandrish [Flemish] beaver hat." Demand for beaver fur led to the near-extinction of the Eurasian beaver and the North American beaver in succession. It...
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    Beaver dam enlargement The beaver is a keystone species, increasing biodiversity in its territory through creation of ponds and wetlands. As wetlands...
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    The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) had a historic range that overlapped the Sierra Nevada in California. Before the European colonization of...
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    city is Beaver. The county was named for the abundance of beaver in the area. Explorers of European descent first visited present-day Beaver County in...
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    Castor californicus is an extinct species of beaver that lived in western North America from the end of the Miocene to the early Pleistocene. Castor californicus...
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    Mountain man (category American hunters)
    trapping. With the rise of the silk trade and quick collapse of the North American beaver-based fur trade in the 1830s–1840s, many of the mountain men settled...
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    of 19, it is classified as a black-brown. Beaver is a shade of brown representative of the color of a beaver. At a hue of 22, it is classified as an orange-brown...
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    Rodent (category Use American English from May 2015)
    North America made much use of beaver pelts, tanning and sewing them together to make robes. Europeans appreciated the quality of these and the North...
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    Coypu (Myocastor coypus) Family Castoridae: beavers North American beaver (Castor canadensis) Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) Family Cricetidae Muskrat (Ondatra...
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    a species of perching duck found in North America. The drake wood duck is one of the most colorful North American waterfowls. The wood duck is a medium-sized...
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    North Beaver Township is a township in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,959 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure...
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  • (PDF) on 30 June 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2013. "National Emblems: The Beaver". Canadian Heritage. 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011. "Official Symbols of Canada"...
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  • New Leave It to Beaver (also known as Still the Beaver) is an American sitcom sequel to the original 1957–1963 sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The series began...
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    Castoroides (redirect from Giant beavers)
    (Latin: "beaver" (castor), "like" (oides)), or giant beaver, is an extinct genus of enormous, bear-sized beavers that lived in North America during the...
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    as Nutria, Biberratte 'beaver rat', or Sumpfbiber 'swamp beaver'. In Italy, instead, the popular name is, as in North America and Asia, nutria, but it...
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    Castoridae (category Beavers)
    †Schreuderia †Sinocastor †Hystricops Castor - modern beavers North American beaver, Castor canadensis Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber †Castor californicus Wikimedia...
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    largely expelled from North America. The wars and subsequent commercial trapping of beavers was devastating to the local beaver population. Trapping continued...
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    (50 km) northwest of Pittsburgh, the city lies along the Beaver River, six miles (9 km) north of its confluence with the Ohio River. It is a part of the...
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  • Beaver Peak is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada. The elevation is 8,783 feet (2,677 m). Beaver Peak was named for the North American beavers in the...
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