Thanks to their impressive building skills, beavers are a keystone species—an animal whose activities support its entire ...

These watery homes also give beavers access to food year-round, as they stash branches underwater for winter snacking. The deep water prevents their lodge entrances from freezing in cold climates ...

After another year, beaver kits usually leave the home to mate and dam a territory of their own. Why do beavers build dams? Beavers create dams in order to facilitate the creation of deep-water ...

Beavers slap their tails to warn their colony of danger, a behavior linked to their social structure and territorial instincts. Living in tightly-knit family groups, they build protective lodges ...

Join the North Coast Land Conservancy Saturday Morning Stewardship volunteers on Feb. 23 from 9 a.m. to noon and help build safe homes for the North Oregon Coast s best construction ...

Beavers are renowned for building dams, which the animals construct from trees and branches they cut using their strong front teeth, according to the National Park Service. The rodents also use ...

If you know one thing about beavers, it’s probably that they build dams. (Here are a few more things: These rodents are second only to humans in their ability to manipulate the environment, and ...

As beavers are reintroduced to Britain's rivers for the first time in 400 years, find out how and why the eco-engineers build their dams. Metro logo Search Metro ...