You Aussie guys obviously haven't been following the press in your own back yard recently. A quick bit of research showed up that beavers were a native species of Australia until quite recently in geological terms. A paper published in Nature by Prof K. Wilson and his research assistant Dr. N. Nonernumberson* details that they unearthed the fossilized remains of a close relative of caster canadensis in the foothills of the Stee Hill Mountains in Worranorabunga County NSW. They concluded however that it was an evolutionary dead end due to an overly easy life leaving them with an inability to keep their teeth sharp. This led to an excessive production of dust rather than the large chips produced by their North American cousins. A steady ingestion of said dust overwhelmed their respiratory systems and eventually wiped them out.
Over here in the UK beavers have recently been reintroduced to Scotland. As to their tree felling technique it is difficult to comment due to the well known fact that there are no trees over here bigger than a shovel stick. Therefore a few cursory nibbles and they are bound to fall over. One of the side effects of Global Warming has been that they carry virtually no coat at all throughout the whole year.
As to their eating qualities the old hands describe these bald examples as "hardly like eating beaver at all"
* P.S Nigel apparently has a boat for sale
Over here in the UK beavers have recently been reintroduced to Scotland. As to their tree felling technique it is difficult to comment due to the well known fact that there are no trees over here bigger than a shovel stick. Therefore a few cursory nibbles and they are bound to fall over. One of the side effects of Global Warming has been that they carry virtually no coat at all throughout the whole year.
As to their eating qualities the old hands describe these bald examples as "hardly like eating beaver at all"
* P.S Nigel apparently has a boat for sale