Eurasian Beaver

Castor fiber · Mammal

Beavers live in family colonies of up to a dozen along wooded rivers and lakes, working mostly at night and spending the winter under the ice beside stores of branches. Their dams flood fields and roads. People took the pelt for garments and felt hats, the castoreum for medicine and perfume, and ate the meat, notably in Lent.

Danger

Dangerous if cornered

How it is met

In families, by night

Size

Small

In winter

Active in winter

Where it lives

Swamp, Marsh, River, Stream, Lake, Pond

Gives

Eurasian Beaver Pelt, Eurasian Beaver Castoreum

Sources

• Josh Holden, Castor fiber (Eurasian beaver). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2009.

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