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Don't forget castoreum, from sacs near the anus of beaver.
by dekhn 2y ago
Don't forget castoreum, from sacs near the anus of beaver.
- amarcheschi 2y agoYep. Funny enough, in Italian beaver is just castoro
- Loughla 2y agoI recently did a trapping class with my youngest so he could get his license to trap nuisance animals. I was surprised by how pleasant beaver smells. And how DELICIOUS they are. How are they not extinct?
- bartread 2y agoIn some parts of the world they have been extinct. They'd been extinct in the UK for a very long time until recently re-introduced.
- dekhn 2y agoThat's a great question, I really have no idea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_hat). I'm generally not opposed to hunting, and totally get that beavers are a nuisance to many people, but IMHO they're probably a load-bearing element of many ecologies. I was just looking at 150 acres of swamp supporting a diverse ecosystem today created by a family of beavers
- eru 2y agoCows are very delicious to humans and make good leather, but that has been very good for there survival: we breed lots and lots of them. If beavers became more popular as food (and for their fur, again), we would probably make sure we had plenty of them around.
- bawolff 2y ago> How are they not extinct? Hats went out of fashion.
- cogman10 2y ago> How are they not extinct? One species of beaver, the European beaver, almost did go extinct. The American beaver was simply lucky to live in a vast unpopulated land where it wasn't a highly desired hunting target.