Eight beavers in the Czech Republic did some public service.
Eight beavers in the Czech Republic did some public service.
This was earlier this year. Link:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beaver-dam-czech-republic
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Gerhard Schwab, beaver manager
Incredible job title. 🙃
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We don't talk about the incident.
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Beaver: "Pay up!"
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That image doesn't appear in the linked article. In fact, a simple image search suggests that the image is of a beaver dam in British Columbia and the picture demonstrates the ability of beaver dams to block/filter sediments out of water after a heavy rain. Why do people feel the need to make shit up when the real story is cool enough?
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It was probably just the first result on the image search of "beaver dam aerial shot."
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Timberborn update looks sweet
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Leave it to beavers
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gee golly that's a great comment!
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How did they do this with no profit motive?
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They did do it for a profit motive. Through whatever instincts or thought processes the beavers had, they figured that they would benefit from damming the river. The dam creates favorable conditions for hunting, nesting, and storing food. These benefits are a sort of profit. Money is a convenient kind of profit, because you can easily turn it into whatever other kind of thing you want and you can store it for later use - and also it is convenient to talk about in economic terms, since it is uniform and easily quantifiable. But no one (or, few people anyway) want money purely for the sake of having money - they want money because it allows them to have other things. Food, housing, good conditions for mating and raising their young.
Sorry. The beavers were only in it for themselves.
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So what you say is that Beavers are filthy little capitalists?
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What is this capi apologista nonsense?
Sustainence Is not profit.
Profit is what you skim off the top from others labour for your benefit.
And capitalists want billions and billions because it gives them power. They are not hoarding wealth for housing.
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Clearly these beavers don't know the Rules of Acquisition.
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They used Jira
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I live in NW Ohio qnd have thought about how beneficial it would be for the state to revert a few hundred acres along the Maumee river back into a wetland. It would reduce loads if the algal blooms that devastae Lake Erie. Some natural wetlands and beavers would mitigate ao much of that, but the farmers around here are completely opposed to any such ideas
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We are the extinction event
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💰
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I just read the article. Good job beavers, and great story!
But it says nothing about dirty water. Just the image here does. Why was the water dirty, is there any info on that?
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The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.
Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.
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The article only says, "to address water issues." Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.
But "water issues" probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.
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Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:
- Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
- Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
- Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
- Untreated human sewage
- Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
- Runoff from abandoned mines
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Beavers: It's what we do. Now clean up that dirty water!
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I guess the water could be dirty from sediments without it being unnatural or bad in itself. I have no idea if that's the case here though. In either case beavers are awesome.
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Humans: Bureaucracy is slow, we have to consult the locals, we have to check the geology of the location, ensure that construction and materials are up-to-standards, we have no money...
Beavers: Fine, we'll do it ourselves!
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Beavers are awesome
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Aw hell yeah, fellow beavers
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These beavers need to be deported for taking local jobs for no pay. There were six of them so that sounds like a gang to me.
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Fortunately they were not in the US.
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Quick! somebody tell RCE
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Nice beaver.
Thanks, I just had it stuffed
Unexpected Naked Gun reference