Giant Beaver
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10/13/21 11:05 PM
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T-Rex
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Minnesota has adopted it as the state's official fossil.
Man who mistake shillelagh for fairy wand; see pixie dust, also.
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Re: Giant Beaver
[Re: AJE]
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10/14/21 08:06 AM
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walleye101
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A glimpse of the important legislative action we have to look forward to this session. On a positive note, the MPR news story, while explaining to it's readers that beaver still exist in Minnesota today (I suppose the average MPR reader may not know that) they correctly refered to the rodent as a "common furbearer".
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Re: Giant Beaver
[Re: T-Rex]
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10/14/21 08:27 AM
10/14/21 08:27 AM
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Osky
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I would be more interested in the type of bush/tree growth they surely must have found in the same fossil layers. I doubt the large beavers subsisted on anything “pine” which has been the dominant tree in more than 1/3 of Minnesota for eons. Or at least until logging changed things here 160 years ago or so. It would speak volumes about “climate change”. I’d think those big beaver had an incredible appetite, serious cropping of nearby food sources. Curious how something that big could stash enough underwater to make the winter.
Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: Giant Beaver
[Re: T-Rex]
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10/14/21 08:30 AM
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danny clifton
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Perhaps it was warmer when they existed? Instead of subsisting on bark all winter there was plenty of other plants available year round. A food cache was not needed.
Wait that cant be right. Al gore said global warming was a new thing caused by humans. Sorry my bad. I forgot
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Re: Giant Beaver
[Re: T-Rex]
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10/14/21 09:29 AM
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Boco
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From what I have read,the prehistoric beaver although a different species was much like our current species. A beaver is one animal that continues to grow throughout its entire life.The older they get the bigger they get.The prehistoric species of castoridae had a longer lifespan than our current version.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Giant Beaver
[Re: walleye101]
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10/14/21 12:46 PM
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T-Rex
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On a positive note, the MPR news story,..... they correctly refered to the rodent as a "common furbearer".
I happen to know that one of their managers is the son of a trapper.
Man who mistake shillelagh for fairy wand; see pixie dust, also.
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Re: Giant Beaver
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10/14/21 02:52 PM
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James
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I wrote a science fiction story about trapping giant beavers, which was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
A few here may remember it, since I sold copies here as a fund-raiser for the Trapperman Defense Fund.
Take it from me, giant beavers are fun to trap!
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
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Re: Giant Beaver
[Re: Ryan McLeod]
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10/14/21 04:45 PM
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Turtledale
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They train easily according to 411 Trimming his fingernails
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Giant Beaver
[Re: T-Rex]
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10/17/21 12:02 AM
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Mark K
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Here is the skull of a modern beaver. Notice how short the top teeth are. Here is a muskrat. It has longer upper teeth and does not chew trees down. Now here is the skull of the extinct giant beaver. It has the longer upper teeth like the rat does. Not suited for cutting trees down or apart. Every giant beaver skull I have ever seen has the same long upper teeth.
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