00:00Beavers, true ecosystem engineers.
00:07These industrial rodents work around the clock to build and maintain their dome-shaped homes.
00:16No hardhat or digger required.
00:19This male has eyed up a mature cottonwood tree and goes to town on it with his chisel-like teeth,
00:26perfectly evolved for cutting through wood.
00:30Laced with iron, they're a totally heavy metal adaptation, strong enough to gnaw through the largest of trees.
00:38After cutting off a perfectly sized branch, he hauls it down a system of specially created canals leading to his latest construction site.
00:48He isn't just slapping together any old pile of sticks.
00:52By using mud as a cement, he pieces together a dam that creates a pond deep enough to deter even the hungriest of predators.
01:02waynees upon the planet.
01:12A wind was Merch, yeah?
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