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I think there is more of a compulsion that that. I’ve seen videos from a woman who has a pet beaver she raised from a baby, and it demonstrates damming behavior without water. He will grab anything he can get his mouth on, and drageit to the opening of a hallway, and start piling random stuff across the doorway - stuffed animals, blankets, pillows, even a small decorative artificial tree.

I don’t know what prompts the little guy to do it, but there is no actual water involved. I don’t think she was playing water sounds, either. It seems to be spontaneous.

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groet@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I seem to remember a similar story of a zoo where the beavers built a damm in a dry concrete room. They later found out the area was above a waterpipe and the beavers were just way more sensitive to the sound/vibrations.

Couldn’t find it with 1min of DDG so might be wrong

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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Maybe there’s a water pipe running under the floor?

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- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah, I’m wondering now. When I saw him doing his dam behavior, I just figured it was instinctual, maybe seasonal/hormonal or something. Now I’m wondering if he can’t hear or sense the water running through the pipes, and it gets him hyped up to build a dam. Very interesting and cool.
  
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Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Does it chew everything in her home? Including the home itself?

My dog doesn’t have teeth made for wood and it already chews everything. I can’t imagine having a beaver in a stick built home.

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- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t know for sure, but probably.
  
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  - jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah that seems like an annoying pet.
    
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