Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question

stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t know for sure, but probably.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah that seems like an annoying pet.

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So the meme is correct ?

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What happens if the beaver is deaf?

  Will it no longer build dams?

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