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Old 10-18-2010, 08:44 AM   #3
Cowperson
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Originally Posted by schteve_d View Post
Are there any beaver experts here at CP? Yeah, yeah. Har-har. Seriously, I'm talkin' the rodent kind.

There is a trail near my house that I walk with my dogs almost every day. Over the last month or so there has been a very active beaver that has been knocking down trees like crazy.

I'm trying to figure out his behaviour, just out of curiosity. He knocks down all these trees but he doesn't do anything with them...just leaves them laying where they fell and moves on to the next.

There are some fairly large trees that he has knocked down over the last while. The larger ones seem to take him about three days (nights, I have learned). I just can't figure out what he's doing. Alot of the trees he fells go across our walking path....could he be trying to stop us from walking there? I've been reading about their habits but it doesn't follow with what this one is doing.

Are we just dealing with a mentally challenged beaver?
He/she doesn't have to be working/constructing on your human-centric schedule.

And, sadly, it might be cutting down trees just to keep it's teeth from growing too large and no other reason than that.

Rodents!!!

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