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This was earlier this year. Link:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beaver-dam-czech-republic
That image doesn't appear in the linked article. In fact, a simple image search suggests that the image is of a beaver dam in British Columbia and the picture demonstrates the ability of beaver dams to block/filter sediments out of water after a heavy rain. Why do people feel the need to make shit up when the real story is cool enough?
It was probably just the first result on the image search of "beaver dam aerial shot."
Timberborn update looks sweet
Leave it to beavers
gee golly that's a great comment!
Those beavers just stole our jobs!
They took our jobs!
Der terk er jerbs!
I live in NW Ohio qnd have thought about how beneficial it would be for the state to revert a few hundred acres along the Maumee river back into a wetland. It would reduce loads if the algal blooms that devastae Lake Erie. Some natural wetlands and beavers would mitigate ao much of that, but the farmers around here are completely opposed to any such ideas
We are the extinction event
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How did they do this with no profit motive?
They did do it for a profit motive. Through whatever instincts or thought processes the beavers had, they figured that they would benefit from damming the river. The dam creates favorable conditions for hunting, nesting, and storing food. These benefits are a sort of profit. Money is a convenient kind of profit, because you can easily turn it into whatever other kind of thing you want and you can store it for later use - and also it is convenient to talk about in economic terms, since it is uniform and easily quantifiable. But no one (or, few people anyway) want money purely for the sake of having money - they want money because it allows them to have other things. Food, housing, good conditions for mating and raising their young.
Sorry. The beavers were only in it for themselves.
So what you say is that Beavers are filthy little capitalists?
Yes and no. They are petite bourgeois. They own their own means of production.
More like semi-aquatic homesteaders.
And no teams meetings?!
without ai assistance‽
That’s the reason it was made quickly, efficiently, and works so well. No emails, no meetings, no AI slop.
I wanna be like beavers.
Clearly these beavers don't know the Rules of Acquisition.
I just read the article. Good job beavers, and great story!
But it says nothing about dirty water. Just the image here does. Why was the water dirty, is there any info on that?
The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.
Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.
The article only says, "to address water issues." Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.
But "water issues" probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.
Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:
~~We don't need other people to ask chatgpt for us~~
Did not ask ChatGPT. I spend a good amount of my free time volunteering on environmental projects, including rain water management. Rain gardens are great!
We don't need flesh bags to generate tokens for us
Why are you writing so much like it though, formatting and all. Did you ask it to format the list for you?
Would you prefer less effort and readability in my comments?
DON'T EVER STOP, SON
Beavers: It's what we do. Now clean up that dirty water!
I guess the water could be dirty from sediments without it being unnatural or bad in itself. I have no idea if that's the case here though. In either case beavers are awesome.
If you think about it, it would make no sense for a beaver to clean water. After they build the dam, it creates a body of water that they swim in. They spend their time on that side of the dam. That would be the "dirty" side. If a beaver dam cleans water, it's purely coincidental.
Beavers have been known to build series of dams down the river so maybe it's a cumulative effect for the downstream beaver families
Upstream is the beaver retirement lodge.
Aw hell yeah, fellow beavers
Humans: Bureaucracy is slow, we have to consult the locals, we have to check the geology of the location, ensure that construction and materials are up-to-standards, we have no money...
Beavers: Fine, we'll do it ourselves!
Beavers are awesome
These beavers need to be deported for taking local jobs for no pay. There were six of them so that sounds like a gang to me.
Fortunately they were not in the US.
Quick! somebody tell RCE
And now wait for some applejack to ruin it all.
What does that mean? My searches are coming up empty...
its from a movie called Hundreds of Beaver
I think I watched a different version of that documentary...
Sean Lock: "This summer, I just browsed the internet for pictures of cats."
Russel Brand: "I did a similar thing!"
Not the one on Porn Hub
Don't tell me how to live my life.