beaver

The biodiversity of the beaver population will be strengthened with more animals being released, while the trust works with landowners to restore the creatures' habitat.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

“Science class starts… NOW!” the company posted on Facebook, noting that a moose has 6-foot antlers “for defending territory,” while a beaver has a flat tail “for slapping water.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Montreal’s mascot was Amik, the industrious Canadian beaver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

His glossy beaver hat and white gloves were laid carefully on a chair near the door.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The beavers are said to be thriving and have since added to their brood, with three more kits being born there within the last month.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Now a protected species, beavers were once widespread in Britain, but they were hunted to near-extinction by the 16th Century.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

As an ecologist in Canada, Mr. Thie was fascinated by how beavers transform ecosystems through dam networks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In Yellowstone National Park, their return has been praised with reducing the overabundant elk population and allowing decimated trees such as willows and aspen to recover, which subsequently brought the return of beavers and songbirds.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

The beavers had left clear sliding trails where they had dragged branches down to the lake, and Brian used one of them, the main trail, to pull the logs down.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018

For two months, they beavered away at the problem.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2014

There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013

"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2011

He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.

From Letters to His Children by Roosevelt, Theodore

Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.

From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2022

Hence a small team of civil servants is beavering away on a "detailed prospectus" for independence, to give the electorate an "informed choice".

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2021

“What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

Still, alphas from Yale or Harvard aren’t likely to be happy beavering away on projects that never reach fruition.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2017

Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart—but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.

From The Deerslayer by Cooper, James Fenimore