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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

My Dive Table does not go up to four years. Must have been one heck of a decompression routine.


21 posted on 05/26/2017 7:20:44 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: Fightin Whitey

Now here’s something you can really relate to I’m sure. ;-)


22 posted on 05/26/2017 7:21:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: Rebelbase
It took four years lying underwater to get a perfect shot of a Eurasian beaver

It often takes a lot of lying to get a shot... oh, forget it. Some jokes are just too easy.

23 posted on 05/26/2017 7:21:09 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: Tax-chick
It is?

Yes!


24 posted on 05/26/2017 7:21:48 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Rebelbase

Comment redacted so I don’t get banned.


25 posted on 05/26/2017 7:21:52 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: mountn man

Whatever.


26 posted on 05/26/2017 7:22:19 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Rebelbase

So would that photo be called “Beaver with Bush”?


27 posted on 05/26/2017 7:24:05 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Rebelbase

what was the movie with james caan where the “newcomer” aliens ate beaver meat?


28 posted on 05/26/2017 7:25:18 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: beebuster2000

I don’t watch XXX movies.


29 posted on 05/26/2017 7:26:26 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: Rebelbase
Obligatory Don't call me Shirley, Naked Gun reference: Image and video hosting by TinyPic
30 posted on 05/26/2017 7:27:16 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: TLOne

A few hours in a Ukraine bar could yield the same results.


31 posted on 05/26/2017 7:30:02 PM PDT by pingman ( Go Trump! Best Election, EVAH!)
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To: Rebelbase

That looks big. Do you know what size that was?


32 posted on 05/26/2017 7:31:37 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Rebelbase
That’s creepy.
oddly, that's exactly what she was thinking.
33 posted on 05/26/2017 7:33:08 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: ColdOne

Ward, there’s something wrong with the Beave.


34 posted on 05/26/2017 7:35:22 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.”" DJT)
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To: Rebelbase

A buddy of mine trapped one, and brought the body to show me. Unreal stink! My Briard went nutz!


35 posted on 05/26/2017 7:35:53 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Rebelbase

Big deal. I have a photo of Lee Majors ripping off Bigfoot's arm!

36 posted on 05/26/2017 7:38:28 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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To: ColdOne

Bigger than I’d ever want to tangle with.


37 posted on 05/26/2017 7:38:47 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: pingman

Dear Ann: I have been `blacking out’ while binge drinking.
What should I do?
Purplexed in Poughkeepsie

Dear Reader: Try not to pass out in a bar with stuffed animals, neckties or human ears nailed to the walls.
Ann Landers


38 posted on 05/26/2017 7:41:25 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: pingman

There were quite a number in RVN in 1960’s most were of the French variety.


39 posted on 05/26/2017 7:42:20 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2017!)
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To: beebuster2000

Alien Nation


40 posted on 05/26/2017 7:45:28 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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