Jon Turner used his automatically triggered wildlife camera to record this video of a beaver in Bolton. The beaver is seen shearing stems from a stump. In addition to using sticks like this for building dams and lodges, beavers also eat the inner bark from the stems.
Beaver in Bolton
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