The Giant Pond Rat That Built America
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2021
- This animal is an architect - it builds entire ecosystems just so it can be better at hide and seek.
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Animalogic Created by Dylan Dubeau and Andrew Strapp
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Examining the nature of the beast.
Flowing water: exists
Beavers: "And I took that personally."
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I will give this man more
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Not shown but they also make really cute sounds. Saw two when hiking recently and after they swam into the lodge I heard them happily grumbling away at each other
They are also quiet delicious...😆
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Rodents never end up sounding the way i expect!
They squeak like Guinea Pigs lol
NORBERT! The badgers are throwing fish at us!
As a Canadian, I will attest that the beaver is a proud and noble animal.
And until you see one close up you have no idea what total chonks they are.
what is a 'chonk'?
@@MatkatMusic chunky
@@MatkatMusic big
@@MatkatMusic having huge fat/body proportion. usually used to refers cute/round animal, or think of a well fed cat 😊
@@MatkatMusic a thick boy
Beaver hears running water:
"Aight, one sec, Imma fix this"
Need em for my leaky faucet
I love the part about the beaver piling sticks on the tape player
My Grandpa has a family of beavers on his property. Turned 10s of thousands of square feet of the best agricultural land into a massive lake and its gorgeous.
Normally I’d say that was a loss but then I thought of how amazing a fishing and duck hunting spot that must be. I already love fishing but the moment I can afford guns, one of the many guns I’m gonna buy will be a shotgun I intend to use for duck hunting. Me and my dad together already catch so much fish that we don’t know what to do with it, and we’ve had to buy a second freezer just for the fish.
@@genghiskhan6809 place is semi protected by ducks umlimuted for that very reason. Plus hes got the deep woods with one or two okd growth oaks, frivken majestic
Where does your grandpa live?
I hope he enjoys that lake
@@genghiskhan6809 or perhaps ecosystems are inherently valuable on their own, even if they don't provide direct benefit to human beings.
I appreciate this focus on Canadian animals.
It's a Canadian crew doing a Canadian show. Much easier traveling around one's own country than trying to arrange visas and permits as a foreigner.
@@jackielinde7568 yeah, true! That way is good for us too to know more about canadian animals. Sometimes there are new things to be discovered right around the corner!
Same here. As much as I love learning about animals around the world, I appreciate learning *more* about the ones in my back yard. 😊
I like and stick to canadian beaver as it is far more populous in my area. I am not anti foreign beaver its just not as available but great fun as its sometimes kept differently.
@@IanM-rl1pu Always nice to see someone supporting the local beaver population.
I remember canoeing on a stretch of creek and didn't realize how close we were to where the local beavers lived, until one came out and tail slapped near us. Sorry, guy, didn't know
you didnt sniff the scent mounds? shame on you
Those tail slaps can scare the poop out of ya, especially when you dont know they are there.
Hearing a Beaver just rip one had me laughing for a handful of minutes. Great episode!
That makes the idea of perfume a lot less appealing. Imagine all those refined nobles paying lots of money to smell like beaver fart.
Me too. And I laughed even more because it reminded me a skit of SNL with Hugh Laurie as a ghosthunter.
A true Canadian, like Terrence and Phillip. PPPFFTT...AAHAHAHA!!
@@AccidentalNinja 10:29 The video said castorium smells like vanilla.
And it was no dry pfffft! It was a "wet" one like dad used to drop at Thanksgiving!
So inspired that such modest mammals are able to build impressive structures such as the Hoover Dam
I like how delighted Danielle was with that beaver fart. She had to put it on repeat. Proud Canadian there!
Thank you all at Animalogic sooo much!
Enormous Luv & Respect from Bulgaria.
I always found beavers fascinating because they build dams and water structures, but I didn’t know the real scope of impact they had on ecosystem.
i agree
Same
I love beavers, they're cute and some of nature's best architects and engineers ❤ What's best is that their Europwan cousins are finally calling my German home country their home again as well 🥰
What about ants
We're bringing them back in Scotland too! We started in 2009 and we now have about 1000 beavers in 250 families.
yeah they're cute until the take one of your fingers off
@@sunstrider1984 Fun fact: Beaver teeth are orange because of how much iron there is in them. It's like getting bitten by a boltcutter.
Yey
I'd like to see beavers returned to their historical range out west, seems like they could help a bit with droughts in remote areas.
trap and remove them when they edge into farmland.
I'm pretty sure the beaver dams would reduce the severity of wildfires, and that, even with trapping and removing them from farms, it would be very cost effective compared to fighting the fires. . . plus, all those extra ponds might provide remote resources to helicopters with the water buckets.
My education is in industrial arts not environmental science, so I'm just spitballing here.
I'm sure it would be a great benefit, but part of the wildfire-problem comes from drought. And without water, beavers won't really be able to create ponds. But in general, I'm pretty sure you're right and it would help.
In a Nature of Things episode about beavers, researchers found a strong correlation between beavers' constructions and precipitation. It was a while ago that I saw it, but pretty cool. The episode should be easy to find if anyone's curious.
@@frizzlethecat2084 In Arizona, in areas that have been ravaged by drought, the parts of such areas that allowed beavers to live and create their dams, found that their waterways continued to have water throughout the driest parts of the year. The water management system of the beavers beat the droughts.
Initially it had been thought, or claimed, that beavers couldn't be re introduced because of the ongoing droughts and water shortages. But some areas rejected this assertion and introduced beavers. Those areas were the ones that had water all year round, which had a tremendous knock on effect of the health and presence of all the other animal species of the area - as they had water.
It was a total success even in the areas hard hid by years of drought.
@@greenman6141 thats pretty cool... and makes sense, im probably going off on a tangent here, but theoretically speaking, the ponds they create, would add to rainfall, i mean the whole water cycle thing i learnt in school, but forget the exact details tbh, but im thinking something like increased surface area plus slow moving... and, if you have a dammed up area of water, you have that amount of water to still head downstream and feed the watercourse, plus small scale, but theyre collecting atleast some dead trees and twigs which would become kindling for forest fires... plus, if you have water, you can introduce other animals that would eat woodland greens, that would otherwise die off qnd wecome super dry and flammable, and the dams, and soggy surrounding areas, would be natural firebreaks... kinda sad tho, the bit where they said they were removed because they were in conflict with farmlands...
You're actually not far off.
The extinction of the Megafauna out West, such as Camelops, Giant Sloths, etc.. probably sowed the seeds of destruction in the beginning though.
Respect the noble beaver. Hard working cute little bastard.
Just watching the beaver chewing on a stick is so satisfying… om-nom-nom with snapping sound. :)
This is making me want to go rewatch Angry Beavers😂❤️ The nostalgia
_Slap fight!!_ 😂
Then you need to check out Zombeavers
"Giant pond rat" is such a great nickname for our animal architect friends.
I absolutely lost it when that beaver scented its mud pile 😭 I thought it was a sound effect
One thing that wasn't mentioned and in my opinion is probably one of the coolest things about beavers is that their teeth are literally coated in iron. They have actual regenerating shears for teeth
That's not really cool
@willwrite3675 Yes it is, nobody cares if you disagree
That is super cool!! A superpower if you will
My dad had a fear of beavers, but now he found them cute even though he’s still slightly scared.
If you have ever seen a rodent's teeth close up. Yeah, you might feel a "wrongness" about how they look.
@@tiacho2893 I know. They are orange because they have iron.
They have a reputation of being Biters. Like most wildlife, beavers are best observed from a distance.
Why are dads afraid of the most random things lol
@@aimeegalindo1526 Because we Dads have lived long enough to know we're not immortal and have to look out for our kids, who still think they're gods in young bodies.
Bravery isn't the lack of fear. Bravery is the action in spite of those fears.
I'd like to thank this comment section for keeping it mostly classy.
Y'all are stronger and more mature than I.
Yeah. And keeping this one classy wasn't easy!
10:31 this must be the best beaver moment in history
look at him eating his stick goddamn I'm in tears
Never knew they can build other structures too, aside from dam. Guess I'm also a beaver fan now.
I always thought the den was a part of the dam. The canals really surprised me though.
Me too
Only human is superior to beaver in building? Considering that I can't even set up a tent and all beavers are instinctual builders, I think the statement is a generalization 😅
I bet you can make a sand castle tho. A beaver can't. At least not yet.
@@Matityahu-the-God haha . Nope. I tried and I failed
@@cymjeff92 a beaver can't build a sentence. You just did that.
Excellent point!
@@Matityahu-the-God True, hunans are great at making useless things, a beaver wouldn’t waste its time, or talent, on something so frivolous. Beavers ARE business in the front, and the back.
i will never look at beavers the same way again after hearing that sound.
Beavers have an incredibly similar familial structure to wolves, which is super interesting.
Wow! I never even thought about that, but I guess they do!
I never knew how important beavers were for many parts of the surrounding ecosystem. Amazing!
Lt. Frank Drebin: “Nice beaver!”
Jane Spencer: “Thanks, I just had it stuffed.”
Robin Sparkles: "Today we're going to sing a song about our beavers!"
I saw my first beaver in Quincy Massachusetts this summer and now I keep noticing them around. It’s like I just became aware of beavers.
I hadn't realized we hadn't done beavers yet. This is awesome Danielle 👌
Good thing they mentioned the case of patagonia, caused by broke fur farmers releasing them into the wild when they weren't profitable anymore as the fashion fad died, tho I missed a little longer explanation in the sheer scale of environmental destruction caused by irresponsible humans as part of the importance of the beaver in the whole ecosystem coevolution :<
Beautiful video as always!
8:41 to nitpick, "castor oil" is the oil of the castor bean. The product beavers produce to mark their territory is "Castoreum". It is believed that castor-oil/castor-bean got its name because it came to be used as a replacement for castoreum as a perfume base.
Was hoping someone commented this! Castor oil ≠ castoreum oil
I love beavers so much. They are such fascinating creatures and I'm impressed with what they do.
Recently I learned they are a.... 'Keystone species' I think was the phrase, which means that entire ecosystems depend on beavers and how they create dams. Which they do relentlessly. They are compelled.
And they're CUUUUUUTE. They're SO *FRIGGIN* CUTE!!!
I'm still amazed that the relatively small beaver dam that my group had to portage over in the Boundary Waters was super strong & didn't budge when we had to stand on it to get over it. Fascinating engineering.
The beaver is the mascot for MIT as they are "natural engineers". As students we tried to emulate their energy and scope, even when it wasn't a physical engineering endeavor.
12:48 Patagonian Beaver just living his best life. Got a den right on the edge of paradise, but no one special to share it with
Danielle: "So, what's not to love about these fuzzy engineers?"
Me: "They're biters. Just come right out of the water and give anything you have a good bite. Legs near major arteries and veins seems to be a popular choice."
@@cursedGalataea Seen too many videos. I don't live near beavers to ever have the chance to piss them off.
They do not come out to attack! They hide!
Humble and noble engineers. And very cute too.
Never realized how fascinating and complex beavers could actually be since some months ago, pretty clever chonky rodents
If I was an animal, I'd want to be a beaver. They are so adorable and astonishing.
You already are an animal, a human.
Dam, that's a cool animal!
“Can we hear that again?” 😳😨😲😂
I fell out 😅😱 that was horrifyingly hilarious
I spat out my tea 🦫🦫🤣
I shouted "Beaver farts!!" and sat here giggling like a maniac 😁
Yuppers, Im one of "those people" who will forever find farts funny....especially when its an animal that surprises/scares itself with one 😂
I couldn’t believe my little earz 🤸♂️💨
Can you do Tarantulas, Lyrebirds, Sailfish, Swordfish, Seahorses, Passenger Pigeons, and Carnivorous Caterpillars?
Carniverous catterpillars!?!
That sounds really cool!
@@Menzobarrenza The Hawaiian carnivores caterpillar
@@user-lq4ct6dr5m Thanks 😁
I'd love a vid on pigeons, generally... I have 5 rescued ferals, & have come to realise just how fascinating they are.
Such a special animal. Must be protected and allowed to thrive.
I got my coffee mug the other day with your animal mural on it. Awesome, thank you. And thank you for your great work at Animalogic.
We had a beaver dam at my cottage on whitestone lake. Just outside of Algonquin park! The dams have unfortunately been left abandoned and the aftermath was impressive! Truly amazing creatures.
Not mentioned in the video is the beavers red incisors. These are red because they contain iron which makes them stronger.
Well done with this one. I thought I knew a fair amount about beavers, but you managed to teach me some cool things, and in a very friendly interesting way. I've been watching your vids for a while but this one earned my sub.
I really enjoy their return to the Hamilton Harbour/Burlington Bay region. There is a nice dam on the redhill creek under the Barton St bridge/overpass.
One beaver is building a dam and appears to one hopefully dam Bayfront boat launch. Poor guy. He keeps taking down the trees along the park walk way thst act as protection from erosion (holds the soil tother) im sure he will be moved soon.
The amount of evolution they had to go through to develop that tail and flippers is mind boggling
Not really
great timing, I recently became more interested in beavers
now we just need a capybara vid...
This episode looks as if inspired by the recent popularity of Timberborn on Steam. You should partner up! 😉
Am playing while listening, do approve.
I have a pond in Quebec and have a beaver family! They are cutting down some trees and get a bit messy but the great thing is that I realize I am a visitor in their environment. Sadly sometimes they manage to affect the municipal road and they (the road service people) are not so patient. At the end we lose the beavers to public interests
Sorry the beavers on your property got removed. The roads people should be putting metal grates at the ends of the culverts that go under roads. Stops the beavers from plugging up the culverts.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the parachuting beavers in Idaho in the 40's (It was a real thing)
Beaver dams are a godsend to trout fisherman. Some of the largest trout I have caught were in the deep pools above the dams, or amongst the sticks that make up the dams.
The last minute of the video has all the feels, 10/10. Go Beavs!
Rat? I think they've well earned the moniker of "architect"
Beavers are the most efficient watershed & wildfire protectors.
Danielle is amazing. This show belongs to her and I'm always excited for it.
I've seen them in parks around Seattle. Muskrats too
And lots of bald eagles, coots, many species of waterfowl, owls, and coyotes
Just started playing Timberborn. I’m ready to build some dams ;p
A great historical beaver story is of "geronimo the beaver" in Idaho. He was given a parachute and dropped out of an airplane
"Pond Rat" I love it. Also, seagulls are "Dump Chickens" and racoons are "Trash Pandas".
Beavers are like the opposite of humans, they build things and benefit the environment while we build things and destroy the enviornment
They are natures cure for humanity, basically. The yin and yang.
After years of restoring the riverfront and wetlands along the Detroit River, the beaver is making a very successful return to Detroit/Windsor. I live about 2 miles from downtown Detroit (and the Detroit River) and I’ve been spotting them frequently, around my neighborhood.
Thanks for watching!
Can you make a video about Aardvarks?
You should make a video about Prairie Dogs, they are ecosystem engineers of the North American grasslands.
Here are some animals that I’d like to see videos of, elephants, coyotes, giraffes, zebras, snow leopards, wild boar, warthogs, cape buffalo, and ring tailed lemurs.
Can you do sockeye salmon?
Really?! Pay to offset carbon footprint? Like those billionaire and politicians who say they offset their carbon footprint so they can keep flying their own jet and boat and keep polluting. Then ask the poorest people to change their life, use higher cost energy and suffer more?!
Beavers are amazing. Thanks for the video! Very educational and interesting.
Love the color, it looks great!
This is going to sound crazy for those who don't know, but I absolutely love how the new Pokémon snap game which features a beaver Pokémon named bidoof, shares a pond with Swannas which are swans, their babies and other duck like Pokémon.
Goes to show they probably noted how beavers tends to share their environment
I've always considered beavers as my "Totem" animal as a Dutch kid who loved to dam up ditches until they flowed over the road.
That’s so Dutch
@@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking Thanks😁
Videos like this make me proud to be part of this amazing planet. Thank you Danielle :)
I love that Beavers mate for life and live in generational family units. I always kinda feel sad for animals that live singular lives, although I understand that is how they evolved to survive.
Recently watched a Beaver swimming in my home water while fishing- the Nooksack River in Washington State. This river in particular has had massive salmon habitat loss due to agricultural and climate impacts. Glad to know the Beavers are here to help! I'll be cheering them on next time I see them! 👍
beavers are bad for the enviroment, unless your a duck or a moose..i guess
or masquitoes
@@hibbidyjibbidyy this is completely false lmao.
@@hibbidyjibbidyythat is nit true. They literally create ecosystems that work
The Nooksac riiver has been badly damaged by the logging of forests on steep land the sends creeks eroding and bringing dpwn boulders into fllod plains. The problem gets worse when illegal trappers go in and wipe out the beavers - still!
As a Canadian I loved this episode and this animal.
These little guys are brilliant engineers. Have to admire their work ethic. Plus they are tough as nails.
I cant remember what kind of critter, but beavers allow them coverage from the elements outside as long as they help keep bringing supplies for the lodge.
i feel like i've said this before but i'll say it again;
can we just take a moment and appreciate her different hair colours ❣ i luv it so much 💖
Beaver butt oil smells like vanilla??? you do learn something everyday.
Great job of narration. Interesting while still lighthearted and fun.
A fantastic episode! Truly one of your best!
What a fantastic animal i love the longer in depth videos
First experience with beavers were in Virginia along a running trail. I was fascinated by their work.
Amazing video as always, Thank you for such good content
Much loved, the beaver! All communities should welcome them as builders of fresh water reservoirs and pollution filterers (is filterers a word? ha-ha!)
I live in Deep South Ontario and I have seen beavers in the Thames river which is quite surprising given how rapid the water gets in there…
We had a problem in Washington DC with a beaver going after the historic cherry trees around the Tidal Basin. The beaver had to be relocated. Thanks to pollution controls, DC is now a much better environment for wildlife than it was in the past. Rock Creek runs right through the center of the city and drains into the Potomac watershed.
Auto play gave me the prairie dog episode and then the beaver episode. Highly enjoyable as always!
I was curious if y’all have you ever heard of the prehistoric living combination of the two; the Mountain Beaver? I have a family living in my backyard and they are fascinating!
Okay, but the background music sounds very fitting for Timberborn.
Also, little fun fact: Beaver teeth have iron, resulting in an orange hue.
Fascinating creatures, thanks for the informative video!
Beavers, Ants and Humans ... all three can engineer some amazing structures without the use of machinery.
There's also some species of termite.
Don't forget about weaverbirds ;)
What about BEES?!
@@bradley4465 bees konda included with ants really.
Ants bees and wasps all belong to the same (genera?' group? Whichever word is right) hence they all exhibit similar nest building
Danielle, you are awesome! I just love your art. Your talent and amazing narrations are surpassed only by your love and passion for nature. Thank you 🙏
that was so interesting! i love thinking about a little beaver family in their home and shaping the world around them to fit them best. love to see it!
Awesome! I appreciate beavers so much. I love a self-built niche.
I had no idea how interconnected beavers and their dams are to the environment and that they help other animals to thrive, I especially was unaware that beaver dams helped salmon populations to thrive, that's pretty amazing. I wish humans didn't have such a terrible impact on the delicate webs woven by mother nature. I realize that humans are a part of that web, too... but with our "superior" knowledge comes responsibility, to be good stewards of the gifts that this planet has given us.
Beaver are incredible creatures - thanks for putting this video together and sharing.
an animal that makes a safe, stable, and rich environment for a variety of creatures. Kinda spot on for canada and how it's become a home for a diverse group of people
They're so cool; Ive only seen them at zoo's here in Australia. It was good to learn something about Beavers with my 4yo-d. So thanks Mate👍
... zoos* (plural, no apostrophe)
I especially loved this episode 💚