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Beaver on ice floe

 

Beaver

Kobras e piiber

Castor fiber

 

Beavers have become active, the mating period is at hand. We can see fresh traces of their activities – chewed twigs from bushes and trees; food stocks are running out and the beavers are on the move even in daytime, not to speak of the twilight and night hours. They mark their territories and the young born in the year before last must leave the lodges, to start independent lives and find areas for living and nesting in