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
