2024-12-18
1 小时 25 分钟Orange teeth! Vanilla butts! Architecture with twigs! Olde-timey joke books? Field naturalist, conservationist, wildlife tracker and “beaver believer” Rob Rich works with the National Wildlife Federation’s coordination of the Montana Beaver Working Group and answers all of our Castorological questions about: baby beavers, tooth tools, lodges, dams, the sound of water, the slap of a tail, who eats beaver and why, beavers in peril, in folklore, in smut books, in your neighborhood and in your dreams forever. Also: yes we discuss slang.
We have this issue, I think, as a people, just of beaver amnesia, not being able to see what the beavers created before us.
And I would bet almost the entirety of us that are drinking water and flushing toilets and taking showers and all the things, our water is coming from somewhere that at some point in its history was shaped by a beaver.
Oh, hey, it's the lady at the donut store who knows that you like bear claws.
Alie Ward.
This is Ologies.
This is beavers.
Finally, the beavers are here.
And ushering them in is an absolutely delightful beaver man who is a field naturalist and a conservationist who does a ton of biological surveys and teaches wildlife tracking and beaver ecology.
And he writes about the beaver as well.
He's a coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation's Montana Beaver Working Group.
And he knows so much about beavers.
So he spoke to me one morning from his chilly house in the Swan Valley outside of Missoula, Montana.
He was wearing a coat and a hat and a warm smile, and we just.
We had the loveliest time chatting beavers, as I knew that we would.
So we're going to get to it in a moment.
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