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How do beavers adapt their environment?

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How do beavers adapt their environment?
« on: 16/08/2009 14:31:36 »
Great short film about beavers by David Attenborough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyNA62FrKCE&feature=fvw

I bet you chuckle at the way it ends  [:D]

David Attenborough is 1 of the few people I envy. What a wonderful life he's had.
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How do beavers adapt their environment?
« Reply #1 on: 17/08/2009 14:32:17 »
Nice vid, and yes, funny ending.

It's difficult to believe that the engineering skill of beavers is entirely instinctive or could have developed instinctively; a quite high degree of reason seems essential.
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« Reply #2 on: 18/08/2009 19:46:04 »
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 16/08/2009 14:31:36
David Attenborough is 1 of the few people I envy.

He now has a rat-eating plant named after him ...

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A carnivorous pitcher plant that eats rats and insects has been discovered in the Philippines and named after Sir David Attenborough.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6041241/Rat-eating-plant-discovered-in-Philippines.html

His name will now be forever associated with putrefying rodents, lovely   [xx(].

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