Beaver Facts & Trivia

Beaver Facts

• An adult beaver is approximately 3 feet long
• Adult beavers have long flat tails that are about a foot long. Beavers slap their tails on the water surface as an alarm to alert the colony when they sense danger
• Beavers are nocturnal creatures, and they work at night
• Beavers are monogamous
• Beavers can stay underwater for up to 15 minutes
• Beavers used to grow to eight feet and 200 pounds (Ice Age)
• Up until the 1100’s it was thought that Beavers bit off their own testicles
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Rodentia
• Family: Castoridae
• Genus: Castor

Beaver Movies

• The Beaver, (2011)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, (2005)
• Beavers, (1988)

Beaver Songs

• The Beaver Song, by How I Met Your Mother
• Beaver, by Neil Hamburger
• Beaver, by Utah
• Beaver, by The Mills Brothers
• Beaver, by John Neville

Famous Beavers

• Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, from the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
• Beaver, from the movie “The Lady and the Tramp”
• Pudgy Beaver Mom, from the movie “Ice Age 3”
• Nice Beaver, from the movie “The Naked Gun”
• The Beaver, from the movie “The Beaver”
• Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, from the TV Show and Movies “Leave it to Beaver