than us trappers do.

I am convinced of that fact where there are to be found large transient beaver populations.

I wish the do-gooders would see that these sweet gentle rodents do indeed tear the crap out of each other when they're overcrowded. You could roll a softball through the hole in this males shoulder.

Yes, they are vicious with intruders.

Not to mention that a colony will kill its own young if conditions become really tough.

they sure can tear one another up,

I wish we had numbers of beaver like that. I'd be doing my part

Our river's here are like that, no one ever traps them, castor mounds waist high and may be 7-10 in a row side by side. I don't know how many people have asked me to relocate them to the river where they won't hurt anything and having to explain what happens when a strange beaver enter's another family of beaver's area. Some of the nasty infected wounds ive seen you wonder how they survive it.

Same thing here, I catch lots with multiple bite marks. Eric

That is nasty!

That is a FHA hatter beaver if I've ever seen one!

By the looks of that scar, he was on the mend.

During drought years here, the beaver are forced to the river. Lots of scaring, fighting, year round castor mounds marking territory. Rough way to live, or die fer sure.

I know what you are saying and i totally agree. I get severalevery year in ohio and Arkansas.

Ack I only ever caught one beaver that looked like that, caught in a bank feed hole in a 330, before I learned to add wire to 330s to float out and past the hole so that doesn't happen

I remember the first year I worked with the Arkansas Game and Fish Dept.. I floated my first trip down the Petit Jean River for a recon with a warden. I asked what those big ant hill mounds were up on the bank were about. He said those were castor mounds. Some were near 3 feet tall. Had to be some mighty large beaver to reach up that high to develop those mounds.

Never saw so many bit up beaver, cysts and healing scars in my life.

Here too, especially in spring.

My largest beaver, a female- baren was bit up bad

Spring 70#

I see a lot of scarred up beaver when doing nuisance work.
Hardly none on my managed RTLs.
I rarely trap rivers on my lines anymore but when I did I noted some scarred beaver on the rivers.

I know that beaver have a great capacity to recover from their wounds but I have found beaver that died too all covered with putrid bites.. Deer hunting one time I stopped to take a leak and in mid-stream I happened to notice that in the brush right beside me was a big beaver that was so badly bit up and infected that he was wobbly on his feet. Wasn't going to survive, put it down with my deer rifle.

I’ve noticed that as well Boco, river beaver love to bite

During dry years the pond beaver will be forced to migrate towards the rivers. Open warfare

Jtrap...need some pics of those scent mounds !!!