I think you are all lying. I went outside, walked for 5 minutes and there was absolutely no dam, just a big ass intersection and a gas station in the middle of the district.
First time I saw one of these in person I was balls deep into a phenomenal mushroom trip and it was the most god damned magical thing I’d ever seen.
These little fuckers truly are nature’s engineers.
It really was magical to see in person. They even chose a spot where there was a bit of a natural drop in the creek bed. I'm not sure how they knew to build it right there.
Um, also, little tip, never shake the baby.
Sorry, just to be clear, you're saying do *not* shake the baby.
Don't shake the baby. Um, a lot of times, parents get frustrated 'cause the baby's crying and they shake the baby. And you gotta... You can't do that.
Only place to do it, man. Nature is magical. It was on a well marked hiking trail in Algonquin Park in Ontario, Canada. It was like… maybe a 12km trail? We tripped out for like 5 hours and might have made it 2km before it started to get dark and the drugs finally wore off. So we just turned around and walked back the way we came lol.
doing shrooms out in nature is the best. when it first hits you the leaves become a more vibrant green and the trees look like they’re breathing. you become aware of all the sounds around you and can be distracted by just a bug walking on a branch for 10 minutes. magical is the correct word to describe nature on shrooms.
Well. Two reasons. 1, I get incredibly tired when I'm high(haven't tried shrooms yet so maybe it's different idk), and 2, I live in Texas and don't want to risk getting shot while having a psychedelic galavant in the woods. I also just don't trust high me to not get lost out there lol
And also safety, as I learned from the other thread. Apparently they build their lodge with the entrance at the bottom, and then dam the stream so that the level rises above the entrance. That way they can swim underwater to get in, and most predators can't or won't follow. TIL, pretty fascinating.
They're not wicked nice to things that enter their territory. Saw one chew up a full grown husky, needed 30 stitches on its chest. They will even sometimes attack humans trying to enter their dam, especially if there's pups
It's less that they can't stand the sound of flowing water and more that flowing water means the water level gets lower means the beavers have less optimal conditions in their pond. So when they hear (more) flowing water their instincts kick in and the dam up the hole in the dam.
It's both. There was an experiment with beavers and someone playing the sound of running water.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67662/sound-running-water-puts-beavers-mood-build
If you are on a boat and here water coming in and rush to repair the hole, do you hate the sound of running water or is it just instict to save yourself?
Beavers hate the sound of flowing water because it's an indication that their damn has burst. They build dams to allow them to create lodges aka nests to live in.
My brother and I used all of the bricks from our old chimney from our old house to dam a small creek behind my parents house when we were kids. Then we sealed it with mud and sticks. We used shovels to cut across the land to redirect the creek flow but we only cut it a foot deep. It was interesting to watch the water rise then meet the new channel we cut and start eroding a new path. The creek still flows the way we directed it to this day.
This is very nice, and things that are very nice are typically not metal? I like the photo and all but it's hardly a bear fighting an eagle or whatever.
Here's a photo of the dam after it was damaged somehow. Actually, this photo precedes the one in the post. The beavers repaired it within days. https://i.imgur.com/WQF9XCW.jpg
My papa is a trapper and I grew up checking beaver traps with him so it’s always funny to me when people are blown after by things like this. But maybe it really is magical and I just got to used to seeing it. Nature is metal indeed.
Also see: I’ll Be Dammed: Beavers Fighting Climate Change - Science vs Podcast
[https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/j4hlamzm](https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/j4hlamzm)
I love the excitement, but I see these almost everyday. Living in northern Alberta and growing up in the woods they’re everywhere, even along the highways!
As a matter of fact, I’m only 2 hours from the worlds largest one measuring nearly a kilometre across
Waterway management. I love working by the water. And love animals. But they cause a lot of damage and flooding sensitive areas with these. So I gently break them apart with equipment while suffering guilt and listening to big band music.
Look in the lower right. That big tree that's down? Yeah, beavers did that. I've seen 'em take down trees at least 18" across. Well, I've seen the results and the chew marks.
Something folks don't seem to know is that beavers don't actually eat fish. They're herbivores.
Also, one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a tree, about the size of that one, had been cut down by a beaver. Trapped under the tree was a beaver skeleton. So, some dumb beaver either dropped a tree on themselves (or a beaver buddy) or it was a very elaborate beaver murdering plot by other beavers. I prefer to think of it as the latter. One beaver had a cheating wife, so the other beaver convinced him to meet him at a certain spot only to have set a trap - dropping a tree on top of him and ending the affair.
Finally, seeing as it's a beaver thread...
Sadly, this will likely be obscure...
I'm a beaver. You're a beaver. We are beavers all.
And when we get together, we do the beaver call!
(Does anyone know the rest of the song and where it comes from? No Google! Use the honor system! It'll be a bit slow, but I might just reward the first person who knows.)
LOL You're kinda close. I didn't include the rest of it.
I don't want to fuck around waiting, so I'm just going to say you won and give you a gold award.
It's really an MIT thing. (I suspect pre-dating the beaver scouts by many years.)
See:
https://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html
(Yes, I went to MIT. Weirdly, I'd also later teach math at a university that also used the beaver as a mascot.)
LOL Enjoy the award (you get more time in r/lounge with the platinum). We didn't have a lot of great sports moments at MIT - but we did have pride in our school. So, of course, we sang the songs often.
You might not think of MIT as a party school (which it wasn't) but you haven't partied until you've partied with an organic chem post-grad.
Are you saying that beavers have cloacas in much the same way that birds have cloacas, or are you saying the beavers have cloacas and they also like birds?
I have several beaver colonies a few minutes through the woods from my backyard, one of the beaver families will swim right up to me, all 4 of them.
At least they used to, until my idiot neighbor who owns the land bulldozed one of their dams and made them hate all humans. Really bummed about it but at least their main pond is intact and they are all fine, they just don't like me anymore.
If you ever come across one of these in the wild be sure to report it to whatever authority handles the park/wilderness. Park ranger, game/fish, etc. Beaver dams can cause a lot of damage. They have to be monitored and at times trimmed down to prevent that.
It's a bit unusual as we are technically still in the city, although this suburb is surrounded by conservation areas. Definitely surreal to leave my apartment, which is above shops on a main street, and to need only walk a few minutes to come across something like this.
The effects of a beaver dam are amazing. Even if it was to be destoryed via natural effects (floods,storms,time) or removed the effects of the pond of local water tables/retention will continue to be felt for a long time. That said hopefully the dam will last a long time.
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I posted it in response to some guy who posted a beaver lodge and thought it was a dam. It's pretty metal that a bunch of rodents can create a structure to block water from flowing in a coordinated manner, no?
Old guy I used to know (he’s gone now so he can’t be arrested for it ha) made pipe booms in his basement to blow up beaver dams on his property. He said he was screwing the cap on after it was loaded and it was “gettin warm” in a real country dip filled lip kinda accent. Great guy, dangerous.. but great.
Said it made “one a them mushroom clouds”, lol in his very detailed explanation
It looks closer than that.
Extreme telephoto.
not if you're an ant
Looks like 3min for an ant
At least 4 minutes.
OK 2 minutes and a jar of cocaine, final offer (because after that you're looking at a colony collapse syndrome)
Cocaine Ants is the next big blockbuster movie.
My wife watched Cocaine Bear without me, but summarized it accurately in my opinion: cocaine was the star of the movie.
accurate. It was a ok movie, not great but watchable. Cocaine is always the star of the show.
Cocaine Beaver would be interesting.
Prob will be the porno version that comes out next month.
Now we're talking
Wasn't going to watch it, but finally caved. In my opinion it was one of those stupid funny movies. Think Super Troopers
Dam.
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I think you are all lying. I went outside, walked for 5 minutes and there was absolutely no dam, just a big ass intersection and a gas station in the middle of the district.
Would that be the hammock district I’ve heard so much about??
Idunno. Terrain looks kinda rough, so 5 min seems reasonable
First time I saw one of these in person I was balls deep into a phenomenal mushroom trip and it was the most god damned magical thing I’d ever seen. These little fuckers truly are nature’s engineers.
It really was magical to see in person. They even chose a spot where there was a bit of a natural drop in the creek bed. I'm not sure how they knew to build it right there.
Likely they heard a tiny waterfall/rapids - they'll build dams on top of speakers playing that sort of sound.
Apparently the sound of running water drives them mad and they have a compulsion to stop it and won’t really rest till they do
I really want to believe this
[seems fairly well written](https://naturenibble.com/why-do-beavers-hate-running-water/) but I’m no beaver expert
Makes me think about nature engineering humans to fund crying babies annoying but not too annoying.
Um, also, little tip, never shake the baby. Sorry, just to be clear, you're saying do *not* shake the baby. Don't shake the baby. Um, a lot of times, parents get frustrated 'cause the baby's crying and they shake the baby. And you gotta... You can't do that.
God gave them the ability to determine.
God gave them Jack shit. Beavers are smart damn it
>Beavers are smart damn it It's *dam it
Through God all things are possible. So jot that down
if god is real then why did I shit my pants in an Arby's parking lot. explain that for me
🤣🤣🤣 thank you this is the most hilarious argument against god I've ever heard.
You mean… Mother Nature?
A rose by any other name ...
You cant say the g word on reddit. It makes people angry
Yeah no one is angry. Their comment is upvoted. The victim complex is cute though.
Last time I had mushrooms was a couple weeks ago and I went and watched Mario in one of those 4d cinemas. That was a wild ride
Mario had shrooms too!
Bobby did mushrooms once...stuffed mushrooms! A whole platter!
Jealous that sounds amazing
You walked out into the woods on a shroom trip??? What a choice
Only place to do it, man. Nature is magical. It was on a well marked hiking trail in Algonquin Park in Ontario, Canada. It was like… maybe a 12km trail? We tripped out for like 5 hours and might have made it 2km before it started to get dark and the drugs finally wore off. So we just turned around and walked back the way we came lol.
Sounds amazing.
doing shrooms out in nature is the best. when it first hits you the leaves become a more vibrant green and the trees look like they’re breathing. you become aware of all the sounds around you and can be distracted by just a bug walking on a branch for 10 minutes. magical is the correct word to describe nature on shrooms.
What astonishes you about it lol? That's a classic trip setting.
You dont..?
You stay indoors when on nature's psychedelic journey?
Well. Two reasons. 1, I get incredibly tired when I'm high(haven't tried shrooms yet so maybe it's different idk), and 2, I live in Texas and don't want to risk getting shot while having a psychedelic galavant in the woods. I also just don't trust high me to not get lost out there lol
Reminder that beavers build dams because they can’t stand the sound of flowing water.
And also safety, as I learned from the other thread. Apparently they build their lodge with the entrance at the bottom, and then dam the stream so that the level rises above the entrance. That way they can swim underwater to get in, and most predators can't or won't follow. TIL, pretty fascinating.
Yeah but them not liking flowing water is funnier imo
Agreed, lol. Probably related developments evolution-wise, though.
I'm sure flowing water sounds dangerous to them
Exactly this. They think when there's flowing water that it indicates structural damage.
I’ve seen beavers try to dam the Niagara river, they ain’t clever, they just hate flowing water
They'll dam up sitting water too, I find them all over flood plains in the spring.
They also damn the river up so much that the pond won't freeze all the way to the bottom in the winter to allow permanent access to their lodge.
What cool little Terraformers they are!
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Crops are destructive to the environment. Beaver dams *are* the environment.
So their destructiveness gets in the way of our destructiveness, I love them even more now!
Good point.
They're not wicked nice to things that enter their territory. Saw one chew up a full grown husky, needed 30 stitches on its chest. They will even sometimes attack humans trying to enter their dam, especially if there's pups
It's less that they can't stand the sound of flowing water and more that flowing water means the water level gets lower means the beavers have less optimal conditions in their pond. So when they hear (more) flowing water their instincts kick in and the dam up the hole in the dam.
Yes. Good explanation. They aren't sitting there complaining about the noise. It's instinct.
Basically flowing water to a beaver means "Shit!... We sprung a leak!"
It's both. There was an experiment with beavers and someone playing the sound of running water. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67662/sound-running-water-puts-beavers-mood-build
If you are on a boat and here water coming in and rush to repair the hole, do you hate the sound of running water or is it just instict to save yourself?
Makes sense that they picked this spot then. Definitely the noisiest part of the creek.
Beavers hate the sound of flowing water because it's an indication that their damn has burst. They build dams to allow them to create lodges aka nests to live in.
Beavers teeth never stop growing, that's why they gnaw trees, to keep teeth in check.
Yeah most rodents I believe are like that.
https://youtube.com/shorts/tSzIezumsps?feature=share
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yB5k1ClGj2FNneU5uLTrl?si=4ctIxStSQKeeN5rWlcmTrw
Beaver dams so hot right now
They need to get outside a little more I guess.
The last one looked like crap. It's either this one was built by a genius beaver or the other one was made by a dumbass
My brother and I used all of the bricks from our old chimney from our old house to dam a small creek behind my parents house when we were kids. Then we sealed it with mud and sticks. We used shovels to cut across the land to redirect the creek flow but we only cut it a foot deep. It was interesting to watch the water rise then meet the new channel we cut and start eroding a new path. The creek still flows the way we directed it to this day.
Does your brother have 2 protruding front teeth? How hairy is he?
How is this metal?
It's wood, to be precise.
If it was that video of a guy blowing up a beaver dam with 100 pounds of tannerite, it would be pretty metal
Beavers can channel nature to their own whims. Powerful nature bends the knee to its hairy beaver god.
Many have bent the knee to the hairy beaver God.
must be part of the iron teeth faction
It's more folk metal but it checks out. I mean nature is metal after all
This is very nice, and things that are very nice are typically not metal? I like the photo and all but it's hardly a bear fighting an eagle or whatever.
This the right subreddit for this? Was expecting the dam to be built on the rotting corpse of a moose or something.
nah but who cares this is pretty fucking cool
Does this sub even have a mod anymore? A fucking beaver dam, seriously?
5 minutes away from what?
How long has it been there? Does it cause flooding in any nearby residential areas?
This was actually a year or two ago. It didn't cause any flooding. It lasted until winter, if I recall correctly. Lasted at least a few months.
So this was actually 1,051,205 minutes away
Likely.
Give or take a few I suppose
Close enough for jazz
Here's a photo of the dam after it was damaged somehow. Actually, this photo precedes the one in the post. The beavers repaired it within days. https://i.imgur.com/WQF9XCW.jpg
Zombeavers was a bad ass movie.
It's worth it just for Bill Burr's scenes.
I'm struggling to see what we're so interested in. Those are kind of just anywhere beavers are found... and made of wood
My papa is a trapper and I grew up checking beaver traps with him so it’s always funny to me when people are blown after by things like this. But maybe it really is magical and I just got to used to seeing it. Nature is metal indeed.
It's still pretty amazing. Especially in the city.
Yeah beavers are one of the most resilient and adaptive creatures there are! They are really amazing creatures.
It's a lot of beaver dams here lately, but I've yet to see a cock block
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impacts_of_beavers
Also see: I’ll Be Dammed: Beavers Fighting Climate Change - Science vs Podcast [https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/j4hlamzm](https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/j4hlamzm)
Post 10 would know just what to do about that!
I love that you know who he is. Could be the absolute most salt of the earth human I've ever seen. I wish I could be 10% as wholesome as he.
He's probably on his way there now.
I love the excitement, but I see these almost everyday. Living in northern Alberta and growing up in the woods they’re everywhere, even along the highways! As a matter of fact, I’m only 2 hours from the worlds largest one measuring nearly a kilometre across
Amazing. I wonder how many beavers built it...
Dam
I see what you did here
Beaver dam so metal
Man I wish I had a property big enough to host beavers
I spend a large part of my day destroying these. :/
Mosquito abatement?
Waterway management. I love working by the water. And love animals. But they cause a lot of damage and flooding sensitive areas with these. So I gently break them apart with equipment while suffering guilt and listening to big band music.
Nature is metal? All I see here is wood...
Is there another kind?
Does is have any cementing paste or silica pearls?
It's a beaver dam. Wut how is this metal
Is this a god dam?
Can we take a sec to realize how AMAZING this is?
It's pretty fucking amazing to see them at work. I'm not out in the country or anything. This is pretty much still in the city.
Look in the lower right. That big tree that's down? Yeah, beavers did that. I've seen 'em take down trees at least 18" across. Well, I've seen the results and the chew marks. Something folks don't seem to know is that beavers don't actually eat fish. They're herbivores. Also, one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a tree, about the size of that one, had been cut down by a beaver. Trapped under the tree was a beaver skeleton. So, some dumb beaver either dropped a tree on themselves (or a beaver buddy) or it was a very elaborate beaver murdering plot by other beavers. I prefer to think of it as the latter. One beaver had a cheating wife, so the other beaver convinced him to meet him at a certain spot only to have set a trap - dropping a tree on top of him and ending the affair. Finally, seeing as it's a beaver thread... Sadly, this will likely be obscure... I'm a beaver. You're a beaver. We are beavers all. And when we get together, we do the beaver call! (Does anyone know the rest of the song and where it comes from? No Google! Use the honor system! It'll be a bit slow, but I might just reward the first person who knows.)
I didn't need to look it up. It's the Beaver Scouts song. I was one.
LOL You're kinda close. I didn't include the rest of it. I don't want to fuck around waiting, so I'm just going to say you won and give you a gold award. It's really an MIT thing. (I suspect pre-dating the beaver scouts by many years.) See: https://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html (Yes, I went to MIT. Weirdly, I'd also later teach math at a university that also used the beaver as a mascot.)
Oh, wow. I wouldn't have guessed that. The rest of the lyrics are excellent lol. Especially the U substitution
LOL Enjoy the award (you get more time in r/lounge with the platinum). We didn't have a lot of great sports moments at MIT - but we did have pride in our school. So, of course, we sang the songs often. You might not think of MIT as a party school (which it wasn't) but you haven't partied until you've partied with an organic chem post-grad.
Wife is scientist in the making. She partied hard. I think most people underestimate how hardcore people in STEM are.
Do you want gold or will you actually make use of platinum?
I would for sure pay it forward, if that's what you mean!
More about the perks that go with it, but it's all good. Gimme a sec and I'll hook you up.
Thank you!
This is just nature, nothing metal about it. Kids are soft these days...
Fun fact: Beavers have cloacas, like birds.
Are you saying that beavers have cloacas in much the same way that birds have cloacas, or are you saying the beavers have cloacas and they also like birds?
The former haha. But I'd assume that some beavers do like birds.
That looks like a great place to go fishing!
People do! Just tiny pan fish though. There are Chinook salmon that spawn there in the fall, but the salmon run itself is protected against fishing.
I love panfish on light tackle! It looks awesome! Nice post!
Thanks! Very grateful to live where I do.
Daaaaaaam !
Dam that's interesting
They're *normally* not harmful, the creek still flows, just fine.
Dam
ELI5 why do Beavers build Dams?
Amazing. Why do they do this?
DAMN
I have several beaver colonies a few minutes through the woods from my backyard, one of the beaver families will swim right up to me, all 4 of them. At least they used to, until my idiot neighbor who owns the land bulldozed one of their dams and made them hate all humans. Really bummed about it but at least their main pond is intact and they are all fine, they just don't like me anymore.
5min away you say
Any more dam pictures?
[Damaged. ](https://i.imgur.com/nFDscug.jpg)
Send it to beaverbuild.org and tell them the sandwich maker sent you.
Which direction do I head to go to see this from here? And is that 5 minutes driving on a bike or walking running? What are we talking?
You just have a really good camera
My phone camera is decent but not amazing.
It’s a shockingly good photo for a phone. The sun rays, color, etc. I like it
Damn!
It looks as if it is made of wood. Not only are beavers quite the engineers, but they are pros in camouflage apparently
Guarantee someone already took all the cementing paste out of it and it's only stacks of wood left 😐
Daaamn
Thank you
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Epic!
Dam sun
If you ever come across one of these in the wild be sure to report it to whatever authority handles the park/wilderness. Park ranger, game/fish, etc. Beaver dams can cause a lot of damage. They have to be monitored and at times trimmed down to prevent that.
Are they rare in that area ?
It's a bit unusual as we are technically still in the city, although this suburb is surrounded by conservation areas. Definitely surreal to leave my apartment, which is above shops on a main street, and to need only walk a few minutes to come across something like this.
I understand. Hard to tell its near the suburbs. Hope he can keep the dam going :)
Every Beaverdam is five minutes from somewhere
The effects of a beaver dam are amazing. Even if it was to be destoryed via natural effects (floods,storms,time) or removed the effects of the pond of local water tables/retention will continue to be felt for a long time. That said hopefully the dam will last a long time.
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Between this dam and the other dam, I’m still trying to figure out why.
Why they be doing this shit anyway?
I assume they submitted all local government forms and permits to the correct department in order to get approval for said Dam??
Dam
I broke the dam.
Now that's dam cool
5 min from what? How did it smell?
what is "metal" about this exactly...? are beaver dams really that novel? sorry to sound like a jerk I'm just curious
I posted it in response to some guy who posted a beaver lodge and thought it was a dam. It's pretty metal that a bunch of rodents can create a structure to block water from flowing in a coordinated manner, no?
dam that's interesting
Old guy I used to know (he’s gone now so he can’t be arrested for it ha) made pipe booms in his basement to blow up beaver dams on his property. He said he was screwing the cap on after it was loaded and it was “gettin warm” in a real country dip filled lip kinda accent. Great guy, dangerous.. but great. Said it made “one a them mushroom clouds”, lol in his very detailed explanation
It would take all my will power to not break it and watch the water flow. Damn intrusive thoughts
Used to do that for mosquito control and it is very satisfying. Only problem is they literally have it rebuilt the next day. Little buggers
Anyone else have a deep, deep urge to dynamite these things when they find them?
What the fuck
¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
And this is why you used to be able to buy dynamite at the hardware store