Beaver Temporal range: 24–0 Ma Late Miocene – Recent
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North American beaver (Castor canadensis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Faimily: | Castoridae |
Subfaimily: | Castorinae |
Genus: | Castor Linnaeus, 1758 |
Speshies | |
C. fiber – Eurasie beaver | |
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Beaver range map |
A beaver (genus: Castor) is a muckle rodent that bides in watter. Thare is twa kynds o beavers; Castor canadensis, fund in North Americae, an Castor fiber, fund in Eurasie. Thay are kent maist as ainimals that bigs thair ludges as timmer dams in burns.
A kynd o Shetland sheep wis kent as a beaver acause o its fine fur awfu lik doun that growed aneath lang, coorse hair.
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