| The first beavers could arrive in Britain by autumn and would be released after six months in quarantine. |
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| The overcast and misty weather did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the eager beavers. |
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| They had an abundance of possession and the forwards worked like eager beavers. |
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| The students were buzzing and there was a long queue of eager beavers waiting for their turn. |
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| At the agencies I was able to contact, I found that a lot of eager beavers had already filled up the slots in most of them. |
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| Smaller prey such as beavers, rabbits, and other small mammals are usually hunted by lone wolves, and they are a substantial part of their diet. |
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| Living members of the group today include beavers, squirrels, guinea pigs, rats, mice, capybaras, and hundreds of other species. |
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| Constructing concrete spillways may reduce or prevent damage to dams caused by burrowing beavers. |
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| House Bill 1486 allows hunters to use snares to trap animals such as raccoons, foxes and beavers on land. |
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| Another odd characteristic of beavers is that their epiglottis lies above the soft palate, within the narial passage. |
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| There the narrow space allotted to spectators was thronged with hot faces under beavers, mutches, and sun-bonnets. |
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| A few years ago, after clearing a slope obscured by fallen trees and nettles for use as a rhododendron glen, they discovered mountain beavers. |
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| This legislation would have allowed the use of traps on moles, gophers and mountain beavers, and provided additional protections for livestock. |
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| The carol singing was performed by members of the local troop of scouts, cubs and beavers. |
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| Mountain beavers live in small colonies, occupying areas with plentiful green vegetation and cover. |
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| The tail bones are very flat and compressed, seemingly specialized for swimming, just as they are in modern beavers and otters. |
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| Be on the lookout for woodcocks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, foxes, beavers, otters, ruffed grouse, and muskrat. |
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| Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud. |
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| In a house in Burley-in-Wharfedale a woman beavers away on her sewing machine in the early hours, surrounded by mountains of cloth. |
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| The committee beavers away trying to have everything right and trying to make ends meet. |
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| Engineers are working like beavers, but it appears that our homes are in no immediate danger. |
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| There's a small bit on Liffey Street and their working away like beavers to have that done by Thursday night. |
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| Canada geese, muskrats, groundhogs, beavers, and various bird species may cause nuisance problems in and around the pond. |
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| At the Farmington River we found several trees that were gnawed on by the beavers. |
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| Modern beavers are found in North America, northern Europe, and northern Asia. |
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| I was investigating the impact of beavers in a forest in Slitere National Park in northern Latvia. |
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| So-called open-root teeth are common to animals that gnaw, such as beavers. |
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| Sycamores naturally grow in river bottoms, and beavers use the young trees for dams and houses. |
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| Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese. |
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| Beavers can rapidly colonize excellent habitat or recolonize habitat where beavers have been removed. |
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| Along with windstorms and fire, beavers were major agents responsible for disturbance in eastern North America. |
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| Several species have been protected by legislation owing to their small numbers, among them are the beavers, red deer, and willow grouses. |
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| The beaver uses its flat tail to warn other beavers of danger by slapping the water surface before diving. |
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| As CEOs tell it, rewarding executives and employees with stock options makes them all busy beavers bent solely on increasing their company's value. |
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| No one would expect detailed management histories of otters, beavers, muskrats, raptorial birds, and yet the success story of the Yellowstone cutthroat trout is worth telling. |
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| Moose, elks, black bears, wolves, pumas, groundhogs, squirrels, beavers, whisky jacks, sandhill cranes, ravens and bald eagles are seen frequently. |
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| The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others. |
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| Other animals that may carry and transmit the disease include beavers, muskrats, water and field voles, water and wood rats, squirrels, and lemmings. |
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| Yes, beavers are industrious rodents whose dams help our river systems. |
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| On the other hand Mitchels, who were playing a lot of under-16s in the team, worked away like beavers with Damian and Eamon shooting past the Harps keeper. |
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| Visitors will be fascinated to see the lodges and dams that beavers build and, given the chance, will be delighted to watch these entertaining and intelligent animals. |
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| Within a few thousand years, humans had wiped out most of these species, including camels, horses, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, giant beavers, and sloths. |
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| In lower latitudes, mastodons and elephants, giant deer and ox, beavers, dogs and cats, and other familiar species existed in the forests and grasslands. |
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| The shapes of killer whales, turtles, grizzly bears, ravens and beavers are based on real animals, while thunderbirds and double-headed serpents were invented. |
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| Look for tracks of muskrats, minks, beavers, and river otters in the mud. |
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| They have been heralded as the dawn of a brave new world of financial security, where like eager beavers we stash away our surplus nuts for the future. |
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| Currency is a current, but corporate beavers are putting rocks in the riverbed stream of our economy. |
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| A few hundred beavers live wild in the Tay river basin, as a result of escapes from a wildlife park. |
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| There are eager beavers who'd do an interview programme but nobody seems interested. |
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| These include river otter, raccoons, beavers, green frogs, and western ribbon snakes. |
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| Eager beavers may just be uploading pictures in anticipation of the launch of the new product. |
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| European beavers have been reintroduced to parts of Scotland, and there are plans to bring them back to other parts of Britain. |
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| This occurs in species such as California mice, oldfield mice, Malagasy giant rats and beavers. |
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| In addition to all of the cutting, the beavers had constructed three large skid roads from their logging area across our lot to the lake. |
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| Winter distribution and abundance of mustelids and beavers in the river valleys of Bialowieza Primeval Forest. |
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| In China, a few hundred beavers are known to live in the basin of the Ulungur River, near the Mongolian border. |
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| Six Eurasian beavers were released in 2005 into a fenced lakeside area in Gloucestershire. |
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| The venture scouts, scouts, cub scouts, beavers, guides, brownies and toadstools now had a home. |
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| Eurasian beavers have one litter per year, coming into estrus for only 12 to 24 hours, between late December and May, but peaking in January. |
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| As a former British species, interest in reintroducing beavers to the wild across Britain has been shown. |
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| Even though the beavers had moved on, the silt remained as a deep, inviting, wet, and murky mass of quicksandlike mud. |
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| Trees may be browsed or broken by large herbivorous animals, such as cattle or elephants, felled by beavers or blown over by the wind. |
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| When beavers make a dam, they cause the local extinction of numerous riverine species that cannot survive in the new lake. |
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| Hannah Creek is less than 7 m wide and is mostly wadeable except for a few sections where beavers have constructed dams. |
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| North American beavers, introduced during the 1940s, have proliferated and caused considerable damage to the island's forests. |
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| While widespread signs of vagrant beavers were found, spread as a breeding animal was slowed by watershed divides in the hilly terrain. |
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| In 2016, beavers were recognised as a British native species, and will be protected under law. |
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| The Eurasian beaver has a triangular nasal opening, unlike those of the North American beavers, which are square. |
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| One study found that engineering by beavers leads to a 33 percent increase in the number of herbaceous plant species in riparian areas. |
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| When building their dams and lodges, beavers alter the paths of streams and rivers and allow for the creation of extensive wetland habitats. |
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| The group transplanted the beavers to another part of the state. |
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| Giardiasis affects humans in southeastern Norway, but a recent study found no Giardia in the beavers there. |
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| This goal was realised in November 2016, when beavers were recognised as a British native species. |
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| In Romania, beavers became extinct in 1824, but were reintroduced in 1998 along the Olt River, spreading to other rivers in Covasna County. |
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| These conditions were found to be met on 23 March 2015, following the capture and testing of five of the beavers. |
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| A group of three beavers was spotted on the River Otter in Devon in 2013, apparently successfully bearing three kits the next year. |
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| Eurasian beavers are one of the largest living species of rodents and are the largest rodent native to Eurasia. |
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| Based on these results, the Scottish charity Trees for Life has proposed reintroducing beavers in the Scottish Highlands. |
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| A colony of beavers is also established in a large enclosure at Bamff, Perthshire. |
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| Beaver impacts on the microrelief of canal slopes were examined in segments occupied by beavers for more than 10 years. |
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| Another study found that beavers increase wild salmon populations. |
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| The beavers hopefully will form a permanent colony, and the younger pair will be transferred to another location when the adults begin breeding again. |
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| In 2001, the Kent Wildlife Trust with the Wildwood Trust and Natural England imported two families of Eurasian beavers from Norway to manage a wetland nature reserve. |
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| In many temperate regions, beavers play an essential hydrological role. |
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| The tail is sometimes used for communication, as when beavers slap their tails on the water surface or house mice rattle their tails to indicate alarm. |
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| The reintroduced beavers were caught in the river Elbe in Germany. |
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| Then he moves on to discussing the chinquapin trees, or the mountain thrushes that should be back in about a month, or the ouzels or grouse or mountain beavers. |
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| In Germany, beavers had become close to extinct in the 19th century. |
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| They can provide habitat for mammals, such as caribou, moose, and beavers, as well as for species of nesting shorebirds, such as Siberian cranes and yellowlegs. |
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| Usual animal sources for fur clothing and fur trimmed accessories include fox, rabbit, mink, beavers, ermine, otters, sable, seals, coyotes, chinchilla, raccoon, and possum. |
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| In 2007, a specially selected group of four Bavarian beavers was released into a fenced enclosure in the Martin Mere nature reserve in Lancashire. |
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| In addition to the story, Lamit has included factual information about mushrooms, beavers, flying fish, mudskippers, and walking catfish, to educate as well as entertain. |
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| Around Ukraine's lakes and rivers beavers, otters and mink make their home, whilst in the waters carp, bream and catfish are the most commonly found species of fish. |
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| The beavers continue to help restore the wetland by rehydrating the soils. |
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| The main problem is that beavers excavate corridors and caves in dikes, thereby undermining the stability of the dike, just as the muskrat and the coypu do. |
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