Woke up this morning pondering THIS question

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That has actually been answered.

  Beavers react to the sound of running water.

  Researchers put a speaker playing the sound of running water in an area with beavers and came back to find the speaker buried in a beaver dam structure.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe there’s a water pipe running under the floor?

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So the meme is correct ?

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Almost, it is more like they hear it, they don’t see it.

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  • tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay, so they base it on hearing instead of sight, but what’s their reasoning for building those dams?

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    • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They build their homes in the pond out of reach of predators like wolves or bears. They also dig escape routes from their den under the water. They’re herbivores so it’s not for fish, btw.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What happens if the beaver is deaf?

    Will it no longer build dams?

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• four@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  IIRC they just need to hear running water to start making dams

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, the prior comment about the woman who raised a pet beaver… lemme guess, every time she takes a shower, by the time she opens the door, every non-stationary object in the house has been dragged in front of the bathroom door.

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• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is the best question by a dam site.

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