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minigopher t1_it7aleo wrote

Reply to comment by RationalFragile in Is building dams a learned behaviour for beavers? by Snoo-82132

An orphaned beaver raised indoors was just shown on TikTok. It had a pile of short branches it was piling up in the door way. Pretty compelling

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BraveLittleToaster8 t1_it7tcgk wrote

I just saw this beaver on Instagram today! He’s just making a random dam inside the house of the rescue person, really cute and so fascinating that this is just instinctual behavior. Kind of like if you have a herding breed dog, it often will try to “herd” people, other pets, etc. without ever being shown how to do it.

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minigopher t1_it7un5x wrote

Isn't that just great! Happy as can be.

You are also right about a herding dog. Australian shepard as an example can be taken from mother after 6 to 8 weeks. To "training" be that time from mother. 3 months later you have a bunch of children at a birthday party, that pup will be a pro at moving all the kids to a corner!! Good example

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