1st Beaver spotted in NYC in 200 years

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NEW YORK - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years — until this week.
Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal itself.
"It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably going to see more of them in the future."
Beavers gnawed out a prominent place in the city's early days as a European settlement, attracting fur traders to a nascent Manhattan. The animal appears in the city seal to symbolize a Dutch trading company that factored in the city's colonial beginnings, according to the city's Web site.
But amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Parks & Recreation Department.
The beaver that has made its way to the Bronx appears to be a male, several feet (a meter) long and two or three years old, said Patrick Thomas, the mammals curator at the nearby Bronx Zoo.
Biologists have nicknamed the animal "Jose," as a tribute to U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano (news, bio, voting record)'s work to revive the river. The Bronx Democrat lined up federal money for a cleanup.
"But I don't know to what extent I imagined things living in it again," he said.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070223/ap_on_sc/bronx_beaver_2






Beavers are making a comeback in the big apple. This is good.
 

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I thought this would be about Lindsey Lohan or Britney Spears getting out of a limo!
 

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Replace "NYC" with "Key West" and you might be on to something.
 

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Danny White;1388740 said:
I thought this would be about Lindsey Lohan or Britney Spears getting out of a limo!

Come now. I simply posted this because I'm a nature lover.
 

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here he is

http://img89.*************/img89/5774/beaverlookingcamerabh0.jpg
 

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bbgun;1389172 said:
here he is

http://img89.*************/img89/5774/beaverlookingcamerabh0.jpg

cute lil thing aint he?
 

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bbgun;1389172 said:
here he is

http://img89.*************/img89/5774/beaverlookingcamerabh0.jpg

That beaver looks like she needs a good shave!





I mean, just look at those long whiskers.
 

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bbgun;1389172 said:
here he is

http://img89.*************/img89/5774/beaverlookingcamerabh0.jpg

Hmm...

Looks like him, and I know he lives in New York...yes, plus the hairy lip.

Yes it IS HIM.

it's, It's, IT'S....IT'S WINICKI
 

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BrAinPaiNt;1395926 said:
Hmm...

Looks like him, and I know he lives in New York...yes, plus the hairy lip.

Yes it IS HIM.

it's, It's, IT'S....IT'S WINICKI

:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2:
 
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