Beaver (Castor canadensis) adding a mixture of pond vegetation and mud to a mound and scent marking it with castoreum and urine

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Location: Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Photo credit: © Rosanne Tackaberry / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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