somebody has to do it!

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• hazeebabee@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  From what i remember, it has to do with the noise of flowing water. Reverse find the sound annoying and will cover it until it stops.

  I remember a study where they played river noises from a speaker and the bevers covered the speakers with sticks – even in the absence of any water.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not sure if this means that they are annoyed or if they use it as an indicator that there is something to do.

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Should be simple enough: check their cortisol levels in the presence and absence of various water stimuli.

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    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Super fair point, I’m projecting human emotions onto the beavers & don’t actually know how they feel about the sound of running water lol

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It can be both.

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• lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, dam

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• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can’t you just play the sound of running water and trigger their instinct? I feel like I read that sometime in the last few years.

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  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Actually, I don’t even know that you have to do that much I’ve seen videos of beavers in captivity seemingly trying to build a dam on dry land

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    • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wonder if there’s some kind of near-surface pipes they might hear water running through.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Did you possibly read it in the comment immediately above yours which was posted 1 minute prior to yours, and then attribute it to an ancient memory?

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    • Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My mom once told me “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” so I’m going to end my comment right here.

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    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Naw, we posted at the same time. When I typed my comment (the one i assume you’re refering to) there were no comments. Once I hit post this one was already here.

      Great minds think alike or something like that lol

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• ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Well dam” - beavers

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• Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  gsas.harvard.edu/news/dammed-if-they-do

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It goes into the how but did they explain the why? Maybe I missed it somewhere

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    • Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sorry I had a few tabs open, this ones a little more informative as to why www.livescience.com/why-beavers-build-dams

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That awesome! Thanks for the article great read.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Beavers are 40-to-80-pound [18-to-36 kilogram] smelly bags of meat with really short legs”

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• criitz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Similar to img.ifunny.co/…/db3af45c002bce5566cbe618861d8a156…

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, that’s likely the inspiration for this copycat.

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• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do they actually dam everything or just build a nest?

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The lodge is generally in the middle of the flooded area after they dam it.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It should be noted that, aside from petty human concerns like flooded roads and properties, beavers are much better at controlling flooding and generally protecting ecologies than humans.

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  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Saw a thing once, maybe Mythbusters, that showed how beavers are attracted to the sound of running water and want to stop it. In the show, they got the beaver to dam a speaker by playing river/stream noises through it.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So, how does one cross post to another community/instance? I feel as though this could fit in with the beaver community on lemmy(dot)world, but I have absolutely no clue how to cross post.

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  • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You should have an option to crosspost it somewhere on the post. Or you could simply copy the direct image link and make a new post using that. Lemmy recognises crossposts by checking if the link is the same. For example if 2 unrelated users make 2 different posts with the same article it will count as a crosspost.

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Beavers: the Nestlé of the animal world.

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Behold wonders of the Beaver Deceiver!

  beaverdeceivers.com

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