Jane Velez-Mitchell

The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.

American Journalist

Yuval Noah Harari

As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there before, but that, together with the tools, was not enough to make man special.

Israeli Historian

Les Claypool

I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.

American Musician

Lee Iacocca

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

American Businessman

Dennis Banks

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

American Activist

Donald Rumsfeld

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

American Politician

Samuel de Champlain

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

French Explorer

John W. Dawson

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

Mike Todd

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

American Producer

Margaret Atwood

Canadian Novelist

Beavers are known for more than dams; they create wetlands which are beneficial for other species.

Not Just Dams

A beaver's tail is unique; it's broad, flat, and used for swimming and signaling danger.

Distinctive Tail

Beavers are mainly active at night, so they are harder to spot during the day.

Nocturnal Animals

Beaver fur is considered a luxury and historically significant in fashion.

Luxury Material

Beaver pelts were highly valued in the fur trade, shaping economies and exploration.

Historical Trade

Using beaver fur can be controversial due to animal rights concerns.

Animal Ethics

As a metaphor, 'beaver' implies someone is very diligent and industrious.

Metaphorical Use

Calling someone a 'beaver' is a compliment about their work ethic.

Positive Connotation

Use this meaning among friends or in casual settings, as it's more informal.

Context Sensitivity

In historical contexts, 'beaver' is used to describe a specific part of a helmet.

Armor Terminology

The term is mainly found in texts about medieval times and reenactment scenarios.

Historical Relevance

 down and just has a natural creek to flow through all winter. And it's basically a Band-Aid though because once it gets real cold, it might freeze all the way down again and create this whole flood plain to start up again. Eventually that beaver house has to be destroyed. So there's no water flowing around or next to the cabins

Saving Cabins in the...

 and are likely to have driven these cats away from their prey. There were armadillos as big as small cars, an eight foot beaver, and a bird with a 26 foot wingspan. Almost everywhere, the world's megafauna were driven to extinction, often by human hunters.

From the top of the food...

 out spend hours and hours and hours opening up a hole just to get water most important thing is I need to have some water between the bottom of the ice and the bottom of the lake you need an area there where the beavers can swim in and

Setting Up a Beaver Trap...

 improving habitats for wildlife beavers are a species that could potentially benefit not only cornwall but the entire of the uk they are known to be a keystone species which means they benefit a wide range of

Wild Beavers Return...

 considerably more water something that i can demonstrate using this pair of door stops now if the beavers got it wrong and built their dam with a sheer face upstream let's imagine that the door represents

Beavers: Dam Good...

 America's largest rodent and they're the only ones with skin flaps behind their teeth that allow them to haul branches without swallowing water notice how neatly the beaver eats stripping the

Beavers Are Genius PIPE...

 So, basically you breathe pure O2 first, oxygenating your body, flushing out CO2, and you are able to hold much longer. I realized that my real competition was the beaver.

How I held my breath for...

 No one knew exactly what went on inside the lodge during winter, so when the beavers were away, we installed a couple of infrared cameras in order to find out.

Beaver Lodge Construction...

 impressive architects and engineers beavers by creating this pie they're preventing soil from being washed away and they're creating a place where new

Beaver Genius PIPE National...

 stocking the fridge takes a lot of work and the beavers