Friday, July 25, 2014

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The saga of the westcountry beavers gets more complicated. They have been reintroduced to Scotland, and there are plans to reintroduce them to Wales. In Devon, at a secret location (which I believe is near Budleigh) there is a DEFRA sponsored project to see if reintroducing beavers will help with flood control. But these are all European beavers. The ones that have been living in Somerset ever since a pair escaped in 1969, and other scattered individuals across the country are Canadian beavers - a species which CANNOT interbreed with the European species, and which outcompetes it wherever it has been introduced, as has happened in Finland. It is unclear whether the ones which have turned up in Devon, in the River Otter, apparently wild are European or Canadian. If the latter, they should be caught and relocated, if the former why bother? I found this picture http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2012-04-26/beaver-found-in-river-because-of-rising-water-levels/ of a beaver in the River Otter two years ago. Showing it to Lars Thomas, he wrote:
 
"On that picture I can't say for certain - if only the focus was a little bit better, I could be certain (Canadian beavers have square nostrils, but European ones have triangular nostrils). But from the general impression - the head seems very small and rounded, and there is a tendency to a snubnose - this image looks Canadian to me. But again - I am not certain. The differences are small, and the image is to much out of focus to be 100% certain".
 
So the plot thickens, and I for one, am finding it completely fascinating.
 
 
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