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
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.
looks fake. not worth four years of time.
Oh. That kind of beaver.
Never mind.
That’s a great picture in comment #10.
Took this shot one handed while walking and carrying a bag of cacti when my daughter pointed and said: frog!
cacti
ROTFL
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.
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.
#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?
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.
Looking at snappers/beavers from any angle, nationality is never relevent. Don't discriminate is my policy!
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?
That’s an old racist joke I heard in the USAF back in the 50’s.
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.
Thank you, Lord, for that which we are about to receive.
I see two birds in that bush.
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!
yes! thanks
Alien Nation.
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 ...
How ironic. The Eurasian beaver is quite unlike the North American beaver.
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