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Beavers set for return to Wales for Ceredigion project
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| March 21, 2011
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Posted on 03/22/2011 7:06:40 PM PDT by decimon
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Beaver tail aspirin?
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:06:43 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv; neverdem
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:07:21 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
The oil found in the glands at the base of its tail contains salicylic acid (aspirin) which was used as medicine for headaches and fever in the middle ages.
Too much information.
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:09:29 PM PDT
by
Nepeta
To: decimon
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:09:46 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
"The always enjoyable giant inflatable beaver."
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:13:56 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: decimon; SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:14:26 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:14:29 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:17:22 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: decimon
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:17:22 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: JoeProBono
My, that’s quite a beaver you have there, my dear. Is that Darth Beaver?
To: decimon
No wonder the birth rate is so low.
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:22:03 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: JoeProBono
That’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen!
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:26:34 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: Overwatcher
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:29:53 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: Nepeta
You know, beavers glands are pretty odoriferous.
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:32:05 PM PDT
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: decimon
“Beaver tail aspirin?”
“The oil found in the glands at the base of its tail contains salicylic acid (aspirin) which was used as medicine for headaches and fever in the middle ages.”
Well, I understand they like to chew on young willow trees, I guess that’s where they’d get it.
To: thecodont
Um, that’s not where aspirin — nor ass-pirin — comes from.
Aspirin (salicylic acid) comes from willow bark. The willow’s scientific genus is ‘salix’. The “castoreum” oil from a beaver’s anal glands therefore does CONTAIN some salicylic acid because their diet is heavy in willow bark. But, to the best of my knowledge, nobody ever used the oily secretions from a beaver’s anal glands to cure a headache.
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:46:00 PM PDT
by
PENANCE
To: decimon
I guess the Brits were a little too hard on the Beaver.
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:48:50 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: PENANCE
The “castoreum” oil from a beaver’s anal glands therefore does CONTAIN some salicylic acid because their diet is heavy in willow bark. Right, I was saying the beavers probably got their salicylic acid from eating the willow trees. I didn't mean that people were getting aspirin from a beaver's behind!
To: thecodont
Oh, sorry. Otherwise I was going to say “you first!”
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posted on
03/22/2011 7:55:56 PM PDT
by
PENANCE
To: thecodont
Actually, I shouldn’t have replied to you, but rather to the original post which made it sound like the source of analgesics was beaver butts.
Oddly, I had a beaver make a dam on my property last summer. It was the first time I’d seen one up close. I can see why their fur was so coveted, it looked like deep brown silk. So the anal gland oil is good for something anyway.
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03/22/2011 8:02:52 PM PDT
by
PENANCE
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