Beavers (Genus Castor) Building A Dam | Mount Rainier National Park | National Park Service (NPS)

Beavers in the park create their own worlds by damming small streams. This baby beaver floats in their newly created habitat. Later, a juvenile beaver isn't afraid to go to the mat with a sibling. That is until a parent drags them home!

Beavers are most active at dusk or during the night, though you may occasionally see them out sunning during the day. Many trees in the park show evidence of the beavers' hard work.

Beavers (genus Castor) are large, 
semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) and the Eurasian beaver (C. fiber). Beavers are the second-largest living rodents, after capybaras, weighing up to 50 kg (110 lb). They have stout bodies with large heads, long chisel-like incisors, brown or gray fur, hand-like front feet, webbed back feet, and tails that are flat and scaly. The two species differ in skull and tail shape and fur color. Beavers can be found in a number of 
freshwater habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes and ponds. They are herbivorous, consuming tree bark, aquatic plants, grasses and sedges.

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