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Table of contents 1. preface 2. appearance 3. criteria 4. Adaption to the life in the water 5. living 6. barrage buildings

1. Preface European beaver Canadian beaver back • mamals/order of the rodents • The family consists of a categorywich is devided in two types:

2. Appearance was native toEurope and Asia by protection andrelease back into thewilderness, the beaverbecame domesticagain targeted hunting and destruction of the habitat by clearing the woods back

3. Criteria back up to 1,40 m in length up to 35 kg heavily up to 20 years old the coatprotects against wetnessandsupercooling very close coat (23000 hairs per cm²; cp. human: 600 per cm²)

4. Accommodation at the life in the water • The dipper serves as: • as rudder by going underground • to regulate the temperature • as fat depot the taill(dipper) covered with aprolate sclera Spindleshapedbody back is able to go undergrounduntil 15 min. – the nose and the ears are closed

5. Way of life back The entrance of the den lies under water (Protection from enemies) always lives close to waters hibernate, butno winter sleep offspring in mayuntill up to 4 cubs feed on bark migrations of the pups until 100 km

back 6. Barrage buildings the den consists of grawed off branchesand mud building artificial pondsand retaining streams at night they fell thick trees until 50 cm the wood is grawed off in the form af a hour glass(„hour glass – technic“)

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