{"id":94800,"date":"2026-03-25T13:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=94800"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:54:19","slug":"beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/beaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Beaver Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a new international study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham, Beavers can engineer riverbeds into promising ways to prevent carbon dioxide release into the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Beaver<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beaver, from the <\/span><b>genus Castor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, includes two amphibious rodent species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>semi-aquatic species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They live in streams, marshes, rivers, and ponds, and along the shorelines of large lakes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>\u00a0Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are native to North America, Europe, and Asia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Characteristics<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beavers have long, orange, visible front teeth, called incisors. These teeth grow continuously throughout its life and are worn down through daily use.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Lifespan: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They typically live 10 to 12 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Communication:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> One important communication signal among beavers is a tail slap on the surface of the water, indicating danger. Typically performed by an adult<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>known as &#8220;ecosystem engineers&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because they construct dams of branches, stones, and mud in streams, rivers, marshes, and ponds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These <\/span><b>beaver ponds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which the animals use as sources of food, as well as protection from predators.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status: IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least Concern<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/herman-melville-was-right-about-moby-dick-sperm-whales-can-headbutt-says-new-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaver live in streams, marshes, rivers, and ponds, and along the shorelines of large lakes. Read more about Beaver, Characteristics, Habitat, Distribution, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":94782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6352],"class_list":{"0":"post-94800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-beaver","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94815,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94800\/revisions\/94815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}