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| 1st Beaver Spotted in NYC in 200 Years | ||||
| 2007-02-23 | ||||
NEW YORK (AP) - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years - until this week.
Beavers gnawed out a prominent place in the city's early days as a European settlement, attracting fur traders to a nascent Manhattan. The animal appears in the city seal to symbolize a Dutch trading company that factored in the city's colonial beginnings, according to the city's Web site. But amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Parks & Recreation Department. The beaver that has made its way to the Bronx appears to be a male, several feet (a meter) long and two or three years old, said Patrick Thomas, the mammals curator at the nearby Bronx Zoo. Biologists have nicknamed the animal "Jose," as a tribute to U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano's work to revive the river. The Bronx Democrat lined up federal money for a cleanup.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #21 MYWAY.com NEWS > RATS go wild inside NYC KFC-Taco Bell. A dozen of 'em, and not small rats either. D ***nged PARTY ANIMALS = PIGGIES THEYS WAS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-23 22:06 |
| #20 Can't be - I've seen couple of Beaver + Pairs in NYC in early 1990's. Maybe ala FUTURAMA, they're living in the ruins of old New York, i.e. the Sewers??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-23 21:31 |
| #19 Beavers shouldn't be named "Jose". "Dudley" or "Chip" or "Naughton" maybe. A Capybara can be named "Jose". Frank Drebin must be just spinning. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2007-02-23 21:12 |
| #18 I had it, but alas, it does not remain, sorry. It was perfect 50's-poking humor |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-23 20:42 |
| #17 Oh - I read the headline as "spotted beaver". I avoid them. I know we've been warned but. . . . Doesn't anyone (com where are you?) have the cartoon of a woman holding said rodent in the kitchen sink shaving it and saying "I don't understand why he asked me to do this." |
| Posted by: GORT 2007-02-23 20:08 |
| #16 #9: But what'll happen when the beaver builds a dam and floods a bunch of choice property? I have a friend who lost 1/2 his back yard to one and he couldn't do a dam thing about it due to environmental laws. Yes he can, it's called three ess, shoot, shovel and shut(up). |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-02-23 20:02 |
| #15 global warming. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-02-23 19:38 |
| #14 Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse so, I'm not the only one claiming to be a beaver expert in college.... and my name was sure as hell better that Dietland Hyphen-Hyphen |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-23 18:49 |
| #13 Yup, we've got lots of beavers in Alabama, my home state, and Tennessee, my adopted state. I've certainly taken my share of beaver pelts over the years. We've even got what one mught call Eager Beavers. All kidding aside, I once saw one drown a coon dog in Alabama. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-02-23 17:01 |
| #12 mmm, 200 year-old beaver, think I'll pass. Next! |
| Posted by: Angomong Flolusing5076 2007-02-23 16:46 |
| #11 “Beaver expert” It’s a great gig if you can get it. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-02-23 16:41 |
| #10 Beavers got teeth? Beavers gnawing a prominent place in anything sorta' gives me nightmares from my misspent youth back before I knew they were soft and nice... |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-02-23 16:26 |
| #9 But what'll happen when the beaver builds a dam and floods a bunch of choice property? I have a friend who lost 1/2 his back yard to one and he couldn't do a dam thing about it due to environmental laws. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-02-23 15:13 |
| #8 Dam those beavers! |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-02-23 15:02 |
| #7 I remember down in Alabama, when a beaver dammed a firebreak creek, causing it to flood. These two city boy NCOs decided to go into the wood line and chase that little beaver away. A few minutes later they came high stepping and screaming out of the forest, yelling that they were being chased by a bear. Nope, but I don't blame them for the mistake. That was a BIG buck beaver. And he was pissed. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-02-23 14:55 |
| #6 Oh, please. Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford spotted more than their share from the dugout at Yankee Stadium back in the 50's and 60's. It's all in my book. |
| Posted by: Jim Bouton 2007-02-23 14:52 |
| #5 he should move to KY |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-23 14:18 |
| #4 They sure it was a big fat wharf rat? They get as big as beavers. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2007-02-23 14:12 |
| #3 and here i thought it was gonna be another Britney thread........my bad. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-02-23 14:02 |
| #2 There is plenty of great beaver up here in Canada. Just saying. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-02-23 13:51 |
| #1 Is it a "nice beaver"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-23 13:31 |