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beavers

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1. beavers

   Beavers (genus Castor) are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) and the Eurasian beaver (C. fiber). Beavers are the second-largest living rodents after the capybaras. They have stout bodies with large heads, long chisel-like incisors, brown or gray fur, hand-like front feet, webbed back feet and flat, scaly tails. The two species differ in the shape of the skull and tail and fur color. Beavers can be found in a number of freshwater habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes and ponds. They are herbivorous, consuming tree bark, aquatic plants, grasses and sedges. Beavers build dams and lodges using tree branches, vegetation, rocks and mud; they chew down trees for building material. Dams impound water and lodges serve as shelters. Their infrastructure creates wetlands used by many other species, and because of their effect on other organisms in the ecosystem, they are considered a keystone species. Adult males and females live in monogamous pairs with their offspring. When they are old enough, the young will help their parents repair dams and lodges and may also help raise newly born offspring. Beavers hold territories and mark them using scent mounds made of mud, debris and castoreum, a liquid substance excreted through the beaver's urethra-based castor sacs. Beavers can also recognize their kin by their anal gland secretions and are more likely to tolerate them as neighbors. Historically, beavers have been hunted for their fur, meat and castoreum. Castoreum has been used in medicine, perfume and food flavoring, while beaver pelts have been a major driver of the fur trade. Before protections began in the 19th and early 20th centuries, overhunting had nearly exterminated both species. Their populations have rebounded, and they are both listed as least concern by the IUCN Red List of mammals. In human culture, the beaver symbolizes industriousness and is the national animal of Canada.

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1. Beavers

   Beavers in Scouting is one name for the youngest section of Scouting with members younger than Cub Scouts and sometimes going to as young as five years of age. Other names are used in some countries. The programme is based on the concept of co-operating and sharing.

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1. BEAVERS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Beavers is ranked #2348 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Beavers surname appeared 15,531 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 5 would have the surname Beavers.
   
   77.8% or 12,088 total occurrences were White.
   16.4% or 2,555 total occurrences were Black.
   2.3% or 367 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2% or 321 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.9% or 143 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 57 total occurrences were Asian.

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of beavers in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of beavers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of beavers in a Sentence

1. William Ripple:

   The ponds and wetlands constructed by beavers can serve as natural fire breaks in the case of wildfire.

2. Sophie Ramsay:

   We learned with the beavers how we have to surrender and have faith in natural processes and their infinite complexity, and to recognize that it's not our job to control nature, that's the beauty of rewilding.

3. Christopher Wolf:

   Despite this recovery, beavers are still absent from many streams that they likely formerly inhabited.

4. James Grover Thurber:

   One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

5. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943):

   Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming and ancestral stream.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavers
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=beavers
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html