Beavers are associated with activity and environmental engineering. If you are “as busy as a beaver,” you are getting things done. These aquatic rodents spend most of their time in the water as they ...

Beavers slap their tails to warn their colony of danger, a behavior linked to their social structure and territorial instincts. Living in tightly-knit family groups, they build protective lodges and ...

When I ask them how the beaver uses its tail, inevitably I have to clarify that only cartoon beavers use their tails to pat mud on their lodge. Real beavers use their tails to swim, store fat for the ...

Animals the size of Labrador retrievers are changing the face of Alaska, creating new ponds visible from space. “These guys leave a mark,” UAF ecologist Ken Tape said of North America’s largest ...

The beaver slid off a bank this week, surfacing in a hole in the ice to stare at us. We stared back, breathless. A midafternoon sighting of this nocturnal animal seemed magical and fleeting. Except ...

On my recent Wyoming mountain adventure to study and photograph Bighorn Sheep, one afternoon I was thrilled to find an American Beaver (Castor canadensis) along a frozen mountain stream. The ...

Don't worry. No beavers were harmed in the capturing of these photos. At least according to Caillie Mutterback, who was lucky enough to witness this exchange in person on Thursday just before 7 p.m.

Why do beavers slap their tails? It's a question that has puzzled and fascinated nature lovers for years. Imagine a quiet evening by a pond, the water calm and still, when suddenly a loud splash ...