The busy Beaver

[BobC]

Yep, sure looks like they did. Unfortunately Killed the tree.
Bob

[DockShootinJack]

Yep, sure looks like they did. Unfortunately Killed the tree.
Bob

Yeah I found that strange that it chewed the bark off that one. One just down from it is a smaller tree. It was hinge cut and laid down but still alive

[Micanopy]

Yeah I found that strange that it chewed the bark off that one. One just down from it is a smaller tree. It was hinge cut and laid down but still alive

Well they are rodent brained critters. They wander and chew. I have seen where they went by trees to get to further away trees of the same specie. Didn’t make sense to me.

Although I have seen weird things. Like in the mountains I watched a bear munching on acorns. He nibbled as he ambled along. Suddenly he stopped and went straight up a tree. Way up to the top where he balanced precariously on some small limbs. There he would grab a branch and pass it through his mouth sucking the acorns off like a vacuum. I figured that that tree produced sweet acorns. It also taught me that climbing trees to escape bears is futile as he went up that thing like a champ.

Beaver are nocturnal and have very poor eyesight. They rely on their sense of smell. Docile for the most part and rarely bite. When they do bite it is usually just a chunk out of your hand, nothing lethal or anything.

[DockShootinJack]

Very true. Yet they do mange to fall a tree where they want it to go. Rarely do you see a tree hung up in another creating a dangerous situation for the cutter.