A few years back, my wife and I were walking in the woods along the Des Plaines River (just outside Chicago) and we saw a beaver in the water. I’m not sure when

A few years back, my wife and I were walking in the woods along the Des Plaines River (just outside Chicago) and we saw a beaver in the water. I’m not sure when they returned to the river, but as a kid in the area, I never saw any there. I wasn’t sure if it was actually a beaver initially until it grew tired of us walking along the bank of the river following us, slapped the water with its tail and dove below the surface.