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Beavers are back in Italy after an absence of nearly 500 years as big mammals rebound in Europe
the Telegraph ^ | 12-30-18 | Nick Squires

Posted on 12/30/2018 7:38:41 PM PST by dynachrome

fter an absence from Italy of nearly 500 years, beavers are back.

The species, which was once widespread across Europe, has been spotted in Italy’s northerly region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

The animals are believed to have wandered over the border from neighbouring Austria or possibly Slovenia.

An adult beaver was filmed by a camera trap in a forest near Tarvisio, a town that lies in the triangle where Italy, Austria and Slovenia converge.

“The reason beavers disappeared from Italy is simple – for hundreds of years they were trapped for their fur and also prized for their meat,” Paolo Molinari, a wildlife biologist working in the region, told The Telegraph.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: austria; beavers; europeanunion; friuliveneziagiulia; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greennewdeal; italy; italybeavers; middleages; nato; paolomolinari; renaissance; slovenia; tarvisio
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To: dynachrome

I do have a comment.

So Rosie O’Donnell, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren and Maxine Waters all took a trip together to Italy.

Now the title makes sense! /SARC MY ASS


61 posted on 12/30/2018 11:43:51 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BenLurkin

#12. Re “Do Moslems eat beavers”? Only when a camel or goat is not available. /Sarc

No disrespect meant to decent Moslems (those who don’t kill, enslave, maim, and torture non-Moslems and other Moslems).


62 posted on 12/30/2018 11:46:30 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: PeterPrinciple

#36. The Gene/DNA incompatibility between No. American and Euroasian beavers means that Rosie O’Donnell can never breed.

That’s a relief. No invasion of America by bucktoothed, fat, unfunny beavers who hate Trump.


63 posted on 12/30/2018 11:50:39 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: dynachrome
”The reason beavers disappeared from Italy is simple – for hundreds of years they were trapped for their fur and also prized for their meat”

A couple years ago I was watching the “New Scandinavian Cooking” TV Show on PBS. All episodes are filmed in the great outdoors of you guessed it...Scandinavia. Amazingly beautiful part of the world which is why we used to watch it, food not so much. Well when the host mention on this one episode that they would be grilling up delicious Beaver I switched between horror and laughter. Couldn't bear to watch it. Doesn't remotely sound good, switched the channel beautiful Fjord or not.

64 posted on 12/30/2018 11:56:52 PM PST by DAC21
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

See that’s what I was talking about. Tolerance, understanding, and just stating the facts. Rosie you suck, Joy you suck, good looking beaver ( not so much)


65 posted on 12/30/2018 11:57:24 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: dynachrome

Not even a single mention of what it was like for a boy to grow up in 1950’s TV America being known to everyone in school as “the Beaver”.


66 posted on 12/31/2018 12:21:24 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Billthedrill

No Madonna jokes, then?


67 posted on 12/31/2018 1:26:21 AM PST by dangus ("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. Athanasius)
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To: Deaf Smith

>>Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver?

Love that video.

https://youtu.be/aYDfwUJzYQg


68 posted on 12/31/2018 2:07:10 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: piasa

The article doesn’t mention one aspect of the giant beaver’s demise: predation by man.

If the Italians loved to eat beaver, surely the Paleo-Indians did also. Who wouldn’t love to catch a giant beaver? I’m sure it would go a long ways and feed the entire tribe for a week or more, depending on the weather and preservation technologies of the time.

Giant beaver pemmican and jerky would have been very sustaining.


69 posted on 12/31/2018 2:21:35 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy

You’re a big fan of Italian beaver, aren’t you, GOPster ?


70 posted on 12/31/2018 2:55:54 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: lee martell

I think the question is are they the old fashioned kind or the modern kind.....


71 posted on 12/31/2018 3:39:58 AM PST by trebb (Put your money where your mouth is - or be deemed "empty hot air worthless")
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To: SMGFan

Don’t laugh. Beaver is good eating. The tail is greasy but the body is good tender meat. Muskrat is better, like a tender squirrel. Possum is greasy and foul tasting all the way through.

Meat quality is normally tied to the diet of the animal. Beaver and muskrat are vegans where the possum is mostly a meat eater.

Remember this if you decide to turn cannibal and pick only vegans to eat.


72 posted on 12/31/2018 3:40:14 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: lee martell
“Are they the furry kind or the hairless kind?” We are talking about Italy man. Big and hairy😝!!!
73 posted on 12/31/2018 3:49:23 AM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: DAC21

Unlike scandanavian, especially Swedeish bevers, the Italian beavers tend to be black


74 posted on 12/31/2018 4:38:51 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw a good doc on this subject:

https://youtu.be/tcHdCFGUupE


75 posted on 12/31/2018 5:25:40 AM PST by beaversmom (Trump is a bionic, 1-man band. Time for all Repubs to jump on his band-wagon & circle the wagons.)
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To: dynachrome

Price of razors going up?


76 posted on 12/31/2018 5:36:25 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Ezekiel

I believe we’ll see more of this as human populations contract and become more urbanized. In my town in northeastern NJ we’re seeing deer again for the first time probably in a century; people are totally unprepared for the damage they’ll do - and have no idea how to drive around them.


77 posted on 12/31/2018 6:24:30 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: zerosix

Sure.

Gino Vaselino, Alex Delvecchio, Roberto Luongo, etc.


78 posted on 12/31/2018 9:35:50 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: rfp1234; zerosix

Yes - the Espositos.

I think Phil ended Big Bobby Clobber’s career.

;^)


79 posted on 12/31/2018 10:12:10 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: rfp1234; zerosix

Yes - the Espositos.

I think Phil ended Big Bobby Clobber’s career.

;^)


80 posted on 12/31/2018 10:12:23 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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