Posted on 05/26/2017 7:08:51 PM PDT by Rebelbase
For four years, photographer Louis-Marie Preau would lie motionless underwater for hours at a time to get this perfect shot of a Eurasian beaver carrying a branch back to its lodge.
Equally as impressive as Preau's efforts were the efforts to pull these delightful creatures back from near extinction.
Via bioGraphic: Prized for both their fur and their castoreum—a scent-gland secretion once believed to cure everything from headaches to hysteria, Eurasian beavers were nearly hunted to extinction by the middle of the 19th century. In France, the species (Castor fiber) was nearly wiped out entirely, with the exception of a small population of about 100 individuals in the lower Rhone valley. But a combination of local hunting prohibitions and reintroduction programs brought these animals back from the brink, and there are now more than 14,000 beavers in the country.
I never had a camera at the right time.
This kind of thing is not unusual in the field. I forget how long it took to get the first live footage of snow leopards, but it was way past my time horizon.
I guess he never learned how to use a game camera.
LOL
Now that is one ‘Beaver Shot’ Jim Bouton never got!
They’re still working on getting an HD photo of Bigfoot.
Couldn’t t just hide a camera in the women’s bathroom in a Paris McDonalds?
This is rich with double entendre.
A wet beaver with a bit of bush in its mouth?
I’ll have to check back on this thread when it hits 100 posts.
The money shot...
“Castoreum—a scent-gland secretion thought to cure hysteria.”
We need some industrial size barrels of Castoreum for all democrats and MSM “reporters.” Let’s get those beavers to work! The demand is HUGE.
That’s creepy.
It took a while for technology to catch up with the uses of biologists in the far reaches of the world. Even now, tagging and tracking is harder than you’d think it would be, given the fact that the NSA knows I’m drinking red wine and eating half-off Cheez-its as I FReep right now.
It is?
Castoreum was discussed in last week’s Friday night beaver thread:
Beaver butt secretions have been linked to some of our favorite foods
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3553616/posts
And every last one of them are like Muzzies and saying in Beaverise “Dam you! Dam you!” Don’t trust them beavers, they got me divorced five times.
I heard Eurasian beavers swim sideways.
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