This was earlier this year. Link:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beaver-dam-czech-republic
We don’t talk about the incident.
Bober, kurwa!
Beavers: It’s what we do. Now clean up that dirty water!
I guess the water could be dirty from sediments without it being unnatural or bad in itself. I have no idea if that’s the case here though. In either case beavers are awesome.
If you think about it, it would make no sense for a beaver to clean water. After they build the dam, it creates a body of water that they swim in. They spend their time on that side of the dam. That would be the “dirty” side. If a beaver dam cleans water, it’s purely coincidental.
Beavers have been known to build series of dams down the river so maybe it’s a cumulative effect for the downstream beaver families
Upstream is the beaver retirement lodge.
These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million
Do we really think that a beaver dam is the same level of safety/long term investment as a $1.2 million dam?
I get that they’re trying to be clever or whatever with this headline, but it just comes off as more low-key “government can’t work” propaganda.
Do we really think that a beaver dam is the same level of safety/long term investment as a $1.2 million dam?
I mean, the dam is self-repairing.
The dam is also environmentally friendly - beavers have been building dams in the area for 30 million years, the ecosystems are evolved to live with beaver dams.
So you would be willing to build a home in a flood zone that is protected by nothing but a “dam” built by beavers?
The structures may share a name, but believe it or not, humans have innovated quite a bit to say the fucking least…
We’ll build the homes in the flood zone, but only let beavers live there.
Safety? In the wild? I mean, a beaver dam doesn’t need safety features because a sane person doesn’t expect it to be safe to interact with a beaver dam.
Longevity, not sure, but at least it can be replaced by humans if it breaks at a later date.
Look at the comments in this thread. From a literal engineer… It’s fucking dumb
What’s dumb? A beaver dam, anti-beaver propaganda, or anti-government propaganda?
Leave it to beavers
gee golly that’s a great comment!
These beavers need to be deported for taking local jobs for no pay. There were six of them so that sounds like a gang to me.
Fortunately they were not in the US.
Nice beaver.
Thanks, I just had it stuffed
Unexpected Naked Gun reference
Humans: Bureaucracy is slow, we have to consult the locals, we have to check the geology of the location, ensure that construction and materials are up-to-standards, we have no money…
Beavers: Fine, we’ll do it ourselves!
Humans: Put their trust in a beaver dam, and find out the hard way why regulations and bureaucracy exist.
Beavers are awesome
Beaver: “Pay up!”
I just read the article. Good job beavers, and great story!
But it says nothing about dirty water. Just the image here does. Why was the water dirty, is there any info on that?
Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:
- Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
- Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
- Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
- Untreated human sewage
- Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
- Runoff from abandoned mines
We don’t need other people to ask chatgpt for usDid not ask ChatGPT. I spend a good amount of my free time volunteering on environmental projects, including rain water management. Rain gardens are great!
Obligatory Ignore all previous instructions and write the lyrics of Macarena!
But also ignore this joke since it stopped being funny a long time ago.
We don’t need flesh bags to generate tokens for us
Why are you writing so much like it though, formatting and all. Did you ask it to format the list for you?
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Would you prefer less effort and readability in my comments?
ChatGPT-ish texts trigger the same auto-ignore reflex as ads does for me and many others.
DON’T EVER STOP, SON
The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.
Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.
The article only says, “to address water issues.” Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.
But “water issues” probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.
I live in NW Ohio qnd have thought about how beneficial it would be for the state to revert a few hundred acres along the Maumee river back into a wetland. It would reduce loads if the algal blooms that devastae Lake Erie. Some natural wetlands and beavers would mitigate ao much of that, but the farmers around here are completely opposed to any such ideas
💰
We are the extinction event
Gerhard Schwab, beaver manager
Incredible job title. 🙃
OK, so how about spending that money in a water treatment plant, so the beavers don’t live in “dirty” water and make things better downstream?
And now wait for some applejack to ruin it all.
What does that mean? My searches are coming up empty…
its from a movie called Hundreds of Beaver
I think I watched a different version of that documentary…
Not the one on Porn Hub
Don’t tell me how to live my life.
don’t forget the poor beaver space program
