BEAVER BONES EXHUMED at EBF

BEAVER BONES EXHUMED
As most EBF followers know, we had beavers on the site between 2010 and 2015. They disappeared in the fall of 2015. In the spring of 2016, we found two decomposing corpses floating in the pond. We removed the corpses from the water, wrapped them in wire mesh and placed them on anthills in the West Woods. 

Last week, we finally retrieved the bodies from the anthills. Interestingly, one body must have been so badly decomposed that the head had already fallen off in the water because there were only bones, no skull, found among the remains. 

But it was what we found in the other cage that was so amazing. There, amongst the bones, was the skull of an adult beaver. Tucked in the detritus was also the tiny skull of a baby beaver! So, it appears that we buried a mother (we speculate that it was June) who was pregnant when she died. We have both skulls on display in the Visitor Centre. ​