lat.: Castor fiber

The Beaver has a body length up to 3.6 ft, making it one of the world's largest rodents. Its shoulder height is 12 to 14 inches and it weighs 37 to 70 lbs. The European beaver has very little sexual dimorphism; the average male weighs about 54 lbs and is 3 ft long, while the average female weighs 58 lbs and is 3.2 ft long. Beavers have stocky bodies with flattened hairless tails known as scoops. They have swimming membranes between their toes and can use both forelegs like hands. The European beaver has very prominent incisors. It has a thick coat of fuzzy and straight hair that ranges from a rich glossy brown to a yellowish brown on the upperparts, and from brown to tawny on the underparts. Its small eyes have nictitating membranes and its ears and nostrils are valvular.

Diet
The beaver is a herbivorous. Its diet consists of hundreds of species of water and river bank plants such as tubers and the rootstocks of myrtles, cattails, and water lilies. Beavers also eat trees.

Habitat
Freshwater lakes and rivers, usually near woodlands, in the palearctic region.

Area
European Beaver in Norway, France, Poland, Germany, Eastern Europe, Siberia, and Scandinavian countries.

Norway, Finland, Sweden, Canada, USA-Alaska, Rumania, Albania, Latvia