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Index of Subjects <html> <head> </head> <body> <br> <br> Patricia L. Chalmers wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:5.1.0.14.1.20060818171539.021bc678@admin.ukings.ns.ca"> I was standing on one of the boardwalks, binoculars raised as I watched a beaver, when a young family walked by. All were delighted when I pointed out the beaver, which was sitting in the shallows eating lily roots. Their young boy (7 or 8?) had started to keep a journal of his nature sightings, and the beaver was a great addition to the two squirrels he had just seen! <br> </blockquote> Hi Patricia & All, Aug 18, 2006<br> Could this 'Beaver' possibly have been a Muskrat ? Sitting in shallows and eating (water ?) lily roots would be typical Muskrat behavior but very strange for a Beaver.<br> <br> If these lilies were water lilies (<i>Nuphar</i>) then the 'roots' are actually rhizomes (sometimes called rootstocks). Muskrat dig these rhizomes and store them. As described in Fernald & Kinsey (Edible Wild Plants of Eastern N.A.; p. 198), some Indians of Eastern N. A. used these Muskrat stores. <br> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville<br> </body> </html>
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