National+Animals

=FACTS ABOUT THE BEAVER =

INTRODUCTION ==North American beaver is a large rodent with brown fur and a wide, flat, dark tail. The tail acts as a rudder while swimming, for standing upright, as a lever when dragging tree logs, and as a noise maker for producing a warning when it hits on the water. The fingers have long claws and the legs have small webbed feet and claws. The beaver has a large and wide head. It has sharp renewable, self-sharpening teeth that can cut wood and fell a tree. Beavers were almost disappeared once in 1800s before Europeans came to North America. Adult beavers weigh about 20 kg (44 pounds) but can be as large as 35 kg (77 pounds) too. It is about 30 cm and its tail is about 25 cm long. The beaver life average is about 16-20 years. Beaver Anatomy ==

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HABITAT
== ** Beavers live near rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes. They are one of the few animals that need environment in a large-scale in order to provide themselves living space and protection. Beavers build dams that change streams and create ponds. They build dams and lodges using sticks, bark, mud and logs. To create a habitat, beavers build a dam in a stream, flooding area of the woods and creating a pond in which the beaver can build a lodge. This beaver lodge is located away from shore and has an underwater entrance. This makes it difficult for most endanger animals to enter the lodge and kill them. In winter, the water around the lodge usually freezes, protecting the beaver almost completely. Some beavers live by rivers and do not need to build dams. Instead, they live in burrows that they build on the river bank. ** ==

REPRODUCTION == Beavers are mating in January and February. The babies are born in early spring, from April through June. When young beavers reach their second summer, they act like adult, building and lodge dams. They reach adulthood during their second winter and move away to find a mate and build a lodge of their own. The baby beavers are born covered with hair and their eyes are wide open. The babies are called kits. Both parents take care of them well. The young beavers usually stay with their parents for two years. The parents chase them away even they do not want to go away from their parents when they turn two years. ==

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FOOD **Beavers eat plants and vegetables including pond weeds, water-lilies, cattails and the cambium the soft tissue in which new wood and bark grow of hardwood trees.** ENEMIES

Some of other wild animals kill and eat beavers. They are such as foxes, coyotes, wolves, otters, weasels, hawks, eagles and owls.
WINTER TIME

** In the winter time, the beaver family stays inside the lodge. The beavers keep a pile of branches at the bottom of the pond. The hungry beaver dives down to get food to survive during the winter time. Beavers dive and survive in the water for 15 minutes. **

TAIL == The beaver tail is very special. It is flat and has very little hair on it. The beaver steers with its tail when it swims in water. When the beavers stand on the feet, their tails help to hold the body to stand up. The beaver also use tail to warn other beavers. It hits a tail on the water to make a loud noise to let other beavers know about the approaching of its enemies. ==
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TEETH

==The beaver has strong and sharp teeth for eating and cutting down trees. They chew around the tree trunk till the tree falls down on the ground totally. They eat tree bark and leaves when the tree falls on the ground. The branches of the trees are used for building a dam. == HOME ==<span style="display: block; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;">The beavers home, called dam or lodge. They are often located in the middle of ponds and has the underwater entrances. They built lodges from branches and mud. ==

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<span style="color: #bb54e3; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">FUTURE
== The environmentalists concern about nature for the years to come. If the global warming and climate change keep occurring, it will impact all kinds of wild animals. Beavers cannot survive without water and forests. ==

<span style="color: #9f4de0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CONCLUSION
== Beavers are wise and intelligent animals. Beavers are considered as the Canadians' National animal so the people of Canada do not kill and eat them. Instead, they take care and raise awareness to people in order to save them from endanger animals and hunters. For this reason, we are all responsible for reforestation and the bio-diversity of animals. ==

Bibliography

**Canadian Animals--The beaver** Knigb's Canadian Flickr wikipedia Animalsfromtheworld

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