Thread: Rat or Otter???
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Old 07-11-2016, 05:42 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by noreast View Post
That is exactly what a beaver does, they make a little spear on each stem.
Correct, exactly what a beavers teeth would make those cuts look like. They can do that to the trunk of a tree many times the size of that larger branch in the photo.

Just asking / wondering ? are the branches that have been cut disappearing after they have been cut. The big one that you show that was cut looks like a pretty well developed branch that would have had some weight to it. If it did disappear a beaver probably took that down to feed on later.

Maybe you have more than one kind of critter hanging around your place.

A few years back our neighborhood association had to have 11 of them removed from our common property. They can be very destructive when they overpopulate a limited space.
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