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It took four years lying underwater to get a perfect shot of a Eurasian beaver
boingboing.net ^ | 5/24/17 | Andrea James

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.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animals; beaver; castor; castoreum; castorfiber; lodge; rodents
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To: Rebelbase

But I don’t HAVE an asian beaver


41 posted on 05/26/2017 7:51:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Rebelbase

Bkmk


42 posted on 05/26/2017 7:56:04 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: brucedickinson

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43 posted on 05/26/2017 7:56:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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The jokes.... They almost write themselves.


44 posted on 05/26/2017 7:58:36 PM PDT by Oil Object Insp
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To: All

Eurasian beaver,

stay away from me - ee - ee


45 posted on 05/26/2017 7:59:33 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (If I had a dollar for every time Stephen Colbert has made me laugh, I'd be broke)
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To: Rebelbase

All I had to do was pay the cover charge and buy two drinks at a watering hole in Dubai. Russian girls are Eurasian, right?


46 posted on 05/26/2017 8:04:48 PM PDT by katana (It still hasn't occurred to them that Trump doesn't give a s***)
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To: DanielRedfoot

Eurasian beaver love you long time, G.I.


47 posted on 05/26/2017 8:04:59 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: tumblindice
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48 posted on 05/26/2017 8:06:49 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: pingman
"few hours in a Ukraine bar could yield the same results."

Spit shine your shoes first. Then, walk right up to the girl in a mini skirt an snap pics of her snapper!

49 posted on 05/26/2017 8:08:49 PM PDT by crazy scenario (We can't take you anywhere)
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To: Tax-chick
" 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.

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50 posted on 05/26/2017 8:11:19 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: Rebelbase

Too easy...


51 posted on 05/26/2017 8:12:02 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: TigersEye
I don't know about Eurasian...

..but I saw a Bouvier down there!

52 posted on 05/26/2017 8:15:33 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Moonman62

I gotta come back later and see just how outrageous this thread gets....LOL


53 posted on 05/26/2017 8:23:54 PM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: Rebelbase

They should have called Heffner, he’s probably got plenty of Eurasian Beaver pix stashed away in the mansion somewhere.


54 posted on 05/26/2017 8:30:12 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Government is at best a necessary evil, at worst a millstone around the neck of the citizenry.)
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To: Rebelbase

55 posted on 05/26/2017 8:30:58 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: tumblindice

Really? It took 30 comments to get to this? Sheesh! Kids today! Don’t know the classics!


56 posted on 05/26/2017 8:35:13 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Rebelbase

With the popularity and versatility of drones, we should have Yeti images, any time now. :)


57 posted on 05/26/2017 8:40:35 PM PDT by Daffynition ("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: Rebelbase

I don’t know about your Asian Beaver but my Asian Beaver looks nothing like that!


58 posted on 05/26/2017 8:49:40 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: Rebelbase

From the article’s title, I thought maybe some paparazzi had gotten a pic of Melania skinny-dipping at Mara Lago.


59 posted on 05/26/2017 9:01:24 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rebelbase
Strange photographers lying in ponds is no basis for ....

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

60 posted on 05/26/2017 9:04:46 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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