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Can a North American beaver live a fully terrestrial life out of necessity?

I live in the Boston area and just saw a beaver waddling around in my backyard and other people s backyards (must have found holes through the fences). My house is right next to a small pond (100-200 feet wide give or take), which also happens to be right next to my high school as well. What I m trying to say is I spend a large part of my everyday life next to this pond and I can confirm there are definitely no beavers in that pond, so the beaver in question cannot possibly be from the pond.

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I live in the Boston area and just saw a beaver waddling around in my backyard and other people's backyards (must have found holes through the fences). My house is right next to a small pond (100-200 yards wide give or take), which also happens to be right next to my high school as well. What I'm trying to say is I spend a large part of my everyday life next to this pond and I can confirm there are definitely no beavers in that pond, so the beaver in question cannot possibly be from the pond.

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  • 6 years ago
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    Are you sure that it was a beaver? Could it have been a woodchuck? And those rats get pretty big in Boston.

  • 6 years ago

    Beavers are most vulnerable to predators like bears and wolves if they cannot flood an area with water and build a beaver lodge to hide in. So if there is no predator around, the beaver will do just fine living on land.

  • 6 years ago

    yes it can.

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