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Feb 2025
24m 46s

Do you know about the beaver? 🦫

Sleep Tight Media / Starglow Media
About this episode

In this episode, you'll learn all about beavers! Discover how these skilled rodents shape their environment by building dams, lodges, and canals. Explore their unique adaptations—like waterproof fur, webbed feet, and ever-growing teeth—that help them thrive in water. You'll follow their life cycle from playful kits to hardworking adults, find out what's on their menu, and see how their underwater food storage helps them survive winter. Plus, learn how their engineering creates wetlands that support entire ecosystems!

Sleep Tight!, 

Sheryl & Clark

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