BEAVER

Beaver



http://www.lilytherese.com/Power/beaver.jpg Diet: The beaver likes to eat marsh, bark ,roots, twigs ,grasses. .

Lifespan/Lifecycle: In April/May one of eight babies are born a year. Beavers reach maturity in 2/3 years and live to about 16 years. They can live 20 years or more. They mate in January or February. Habita t

Beavers are amazing animals. They live in parts of Europe and some parts of Asia plus all over the U.S.A. Beavers especially like to live in rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes. They also live in forest that have water in them because they built their homes out of wood. This is called a dam. It is in a shape of a half circle. If they want to get in they will have to swim under. They will have to move if the place dose not have enough food.

Behavior / Special Skills: Beavers cut down large trees to make dams and lodges. They build a dam in the water to slow down and build the flow in the streams, rivers, and to make their lodge stable. They only build in the water. They are powerful swimmers.

Predators/Defense: Young beavers enemy's are bear, wolves, wolverines, lynxes, fisher, and otters. They slap there tales on the water to stay safe from there predators.After that they swim away. There homes protect them too.

Physical Characteristics:

A beaver has brown fur, strong teeth, and weigh about 30-70-77 pounds. They also have a flat tail and it can be 30 c.m. While they swim ,they transparent eyelid so they would be porterted. They are 3-7 feet tall. Beavers have webbed feet + claw, long claws!  Oaks, Linda. beaver_4.jpg. 2009. Pics4Learning. 21 Oct 2010 

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