150 beavers living wild in Scotland

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Chlidonias

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What it only partly mentions is that the Tayside beavers are from unknown sources, so that some, or all could be of North American stock giving rise to a population of mixed or non-European origin. However presumably it would not be difficult to trap and DNA test some of them to see what shows up regarding their ancestry.
 
Pertinax said:
What it only partly mentions is that the Tayside beavers are from unknown sources, so that some, or all could be of North American stock giving rise to a population of mixed or non-European origin. However presumably it would not be difficult to trap and DNA test some of them to see what shows up regarding their ancestry.
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I believe that to some extent this testing has already taken place, with the ironic discovery that those individuals tested show up as being Germanic, rather than Scandinavian in origin - as with the officially re-released individuals - and therefore are likely to be closer to our original stock than the official ones ;)
 
Are these all from the re release a few years ago ? they must breed like hell, surely they need predators to control them. Lynx, wolf, Bear, any one?;)
 
Thanks TealovingDave I did wonder how they could balloon so fast and why the world wasn't ankle deep in beavers!

Pertinax, Aren't the North American species more likely to build dams than the European ones? that could be a clue as well as the DNA testing.
dean
 
There is I believe another population in Devon not sure how they are going at this time
 
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