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.
But I don’t HAVE an asian beaver
Bkmk
Thanks! Now I have two episodes to watch.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4smgx9
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4sw6vt
The jokes.... They almost write themselves.
Eurasian beaver,
stay away from me - ee - ee
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?
Eurasian beaver love you long time, G.I.
Spit shine your shoes first. Then, walk right up to the girl in a mini skirt an snap pics of her snapper!
Drinking red wine and eating half-off Cheez-its sounds divine, joining you right now.
Too easy...
..but I saw a Bouvier down there!
I gotta come back later and see just how outrageous this thread gets....LOL
They should have called Heffner, he’s probably got plenty of Eurasian Beaver pix stashed away in the mansion somewhere.
Really? It took 30 comments to get to this? Sheesh! Kids today! Don’t know the classics!
With the popularity and versatility of drones, we should have Yeti images, any time now. :)
I don’t know about your Asian Beaver but my Asian Beaver looks nothing like that!
From the article’s title, I thought maybe some paparazzi had gotten a pic of Melania skinny-dipping at Mara Lago.
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