{"id":33,"date":"2016-11-22T03:55:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T03:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/?p=33"},"modified":"2016-11-22T03:55:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T03:55:50","slug":"how-big-is-a-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/2016\/11\/22\/how-big-is-a-beaver\/","title":{"rendered":"How Big is a Beaver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big enough to aggressively slap its tail on our approach, rather than quietly slipping out of the way. \u00a0 Big enough to cut down and transport trees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwf.org\/news-and-magazines\/national-wildlife\/animals\/archives\/2015\/beavers.aspx\">as much as 30 inches in diameter.<\/a> \u00a0Big enough to build dams <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beaver_dam\">more than 12 feet high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to LiveScience, the typical American \u00a0beaver (<em>Castor canadensis<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52460-beavers.html\">weighs 60 pounds\u00a0and is 23 to 39 inches (60 to 100 centimeters) long<\/a>. The tail adds another 7.75 to 12 inches (20 to 30.5 cm) to its length,<\/p>\n<p>A beaver is big enough to change an entire landscape. \u00a0It is big enough to want to defend its territory against humans. \u00a0It is big enough to be North America&#8217;s\u00a0largest rodent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/article-2316953-198CD99D000005DC-726_634x355-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"article-2316953-198cd99d000005dc-726_634x355\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/article-2316953-198CD99D000005DC-726_634x355-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/article-2316953-198CD99D000005DC-726_634x355.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big enough to aggressively slap its tail on our approach, rather than quietly slipping out of the way. \u00a0 Big enough to cut down and transport trees as much as 30 inches in diameter. \u00a0Big enough to build dams more than 12 feet high. According to LiveScience, the typical American \u00a0beaver (Castor canadensis) weighs 60 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/2016\/11\/22\/how-big-is-a-beaver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Big is a Beaver?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaver","category-natural-history","category-wildlife","tag-beaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touringkayaks.com\/basinpond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}