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Recent Examples of beaver
Fur trappers, the almanac stated, used this time also to hunt beavers for their pelts.
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John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2024
During the fur trade in North America, this was also the season to trap beavers for their thick, winter-ready pelts, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
—Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
But this year's view of the showers may be obstructed by a bright beaver's supermoon on Nov. 15.
—Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
The beaver was found by Jane Newhouse along the side of a highway in 2022 as an orphaned baby weighing only one pound.
—Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
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John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2024
During the fur trade in North America, this was also the season to trap beavers for their thick, winter-ready pelts, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
—Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
But this year's view of the showers may be obstructed by a bright beaver's supermoon on Nov. 15.
—Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
The beaver was found by Jane Newhouse along the side of a highway in 2022 as an orphaned baby weighing only one pound.
—Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beaver
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Edward’s parenting was particularly industrious, requiring his children to paint their own rooms, make their own clothes and earn extra cash by trapping and skinning muskrats to sell their pelts.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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The researchers also analyzed several other species raised for fur, meat, and medicinal purposes, including deer, muskrats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and badgers.ByJon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
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At last, a show about retirees, with their mink coats and cha-cha lessons.Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Wispy hybrids, classic sets, 35mm minks, and more, lash extensions provided a semi-permanent alternative to strip lashes and mascara.Cierra Black, Essence, 21 Oct. 2024
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Jaguars also eat peccaries, capybaras, pacas, agoutis, deer, opossum, rabbits, armadillos, caimans, turtles and livestock, depending on their habitat.Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Absent any last minute rabbits videoed popping up in magician’s hats, then the key date looks like being January 19.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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There are others too: gorilla, aardvark, Himalayan blue sheep, the Giant Japanese Salamander and the Asian small-clawed otter, to name a few.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
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Over the past 50 years, otter populations have rebounded with federal protection.Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
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Peanut the squirrel and Fred the racoon have captivated people across the nation − and rallied those who find the animals' euthanasia at the hands of the government unjust.Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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On Friday, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Chemung County Department of Health announced that a squirrel and a racoon had been euthanized to test for rabies.Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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Research on dairy farms has shown the virus spreads efficiently between mammals, including from cows to other species like raccoons and cats.Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
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The company handles wildlife that shows up in unexpected, and often unwelcome spaces, and frequently posts social media videos of its encounters featuring creatures like bobcats, wild boars, skunks, raccoons and rattlesnakes.Leslie Katz, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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Found throughout Botswana, honey badgers are famously ferocious.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Mammals such as wolves and badgers also create dens.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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With their larger competitors out of the way, the smaller, less numerous martens had some breathing room.Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
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For the last eight years, Pauli has been studying American martens on the island.Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024
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“Beaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaver. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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