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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

looks fake. not worth four years of time.


61 posted on 05/26/2017 9:11:01 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Rebelbase

Oh. That kind of beaver.

Never mind.


62 posted on 05/26/2017 9:32:44 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: JohnBrowdie

That’s a great picture in comment #10.


63 posted on 05/26/2017 9:39:12 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Rebelbase

I took this shot a couple of days ago of a bird at the Botanical Gardens while eating a cookie.


Took this shot one handed while walking and carrying a bag of cacti when my daughter pointed and said: frog!


cacti


64 posted on 05/26/2017 9:47:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: Fightin Whitey

ROTFL


65 posted on 05/26/2017 9:50:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: mountn man

She’s always been beautiful.

This photographer could have saved 4 years and a lot of money by buying this issue of Playboy.

However, I knew an Eurasian girl who would have posed for him for a few dollars and he would have saved a lot of time and money because of her.

However, if the photographer liked 4 legged Eurasian beavers, who am I to deny him his voyeurism.


66 posted on 05/26/2017 9:50:27 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: crazy scenario
"Spit shine your shoes first. Then, walk right up to the girl in a mini skirt an snap pics of her snapper!"

There's a really good eating fish in the Gulf of Mexico called Red Snapper here in Texas. A couple of co-workers were sent to Chicago for training for a week. One night they went to a seafood restaurant one of the guys asked the waitress "Do you have Red Snapper?" and they almost got thrown out.

67 posted on 05/26/2017 9:51:25 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: crazy scenario

#49. There was an actor (real name was Norman) in the movie “Romancing the Stone” who kept saying “Look at them snappers”. Any relation to the Ukrainians?


68 posted on 05/26/2017 9:53:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: eastforker

I once went out with a girl whose last name was Beaver.
Don’t ask.

“It was the summer of 62”, a time I’ll never forget (I want Bryan Adams to sing about it.


69 posted on 05/26/2017 9:58:45 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
#49. There was an actor (real name was Norman) in the movie “Romancing the Stone” who kept saying “Look at them snappers”. Any relation to the Ukrainians?

Looking at snappers/beavers from any angle, nationality is never relevent. Don't discriminate is my policy!

70 posted on 05/26/2017 10:00:40 PM PDT by crazy scenario (We can't take you anywhere)
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To: crazy scenario
"Spit shine your shoes first. Then, walk right up to the girl in a mini skirt an snap pics of her snapper!"

There's a fish in the Gulf of Mexico that Texans call Red Snapper. It's good eating and any decent seafood place here has it. Some co-workers were sent to Chicago for a weeks training. One night they went to a Seafood restaurant and one of the guys asked the waitress "Do you have Red Snapper?" they almost got thrown out. By the way when you order tea up there they'll bring you a cup of hot water with a tea bag. What's up with that?

71 posted on 05/26/2017 10:04:35 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: DanielRedfoot

That’s an old racist joke I heard in the USAF back in the 50’s.


72 posted on 05/26/2017 10:28:33 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Rebelbase
Decades ago, was at a lecture given by Harold Edgerton at the USCGA. Edgerton invented the strobe light, which opened the way for images to be captured in the deep.

He was talked into, going to Loch Ness to look for the monster with side-scan sonar. He made it very clear, he was a non-believer. But after days and days on the lake, he caught some grainy images of *something*. He was quite surprised and began to believe that *something* is lurking there. After seeing his images, convinced me, that it could be true, that Nessie exists.

73 posted on 05/26/2017 10:39:17 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

Thank you, Lord, for that which we are about to receive.


74 posted on 05/26/2017 10:42:11 PM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I see two birds in that bush.


75 posted on 05/26/2017 10:59:48 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Rebelbase

I googled: beaver underwater
http://tinyurl.com/yd6pd7he

The guy could have saved himself alot of time.
There are already many shots. BTW they are “G” rated!


76 posted on 05/27/2017 1:00:01 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: mountn man

yes! thanks

Alien Nation.


77 posted on 05/27/2017 5:03:39 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: Tanniker Smith

Yup. Beaver 101.
Whatcha gonna do? You send `em to school, buy `em books—and they eat the covers off the books.
Cats living with dogs ...


78 posted on 05/27/2017 7:27:54 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: Rebelbase
once believed to cure everything from headaches to hysteria

How ironic. The Eurasian beaver is quite unlike the North American beaver.

79 posted on 05/27/2017 7:30:23 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: gundog
If you click this photo so that it expands - you might find four or more frogs.
80 posted on 05/27/2017 10:54:24 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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