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Science actually figured this one out. Beavers raised in captivity when exposed to a speaker playing river noises will cover it up with as much stuff as possible to hide the noise. So it's the noise they have an issue with
There is a norwegian study that found that isolated beaver babies start piling up sticks and stuff at some point but do not build dams. They concluded (the scientists) that piling up stuff is genetic and building dams is cultural (has to be learned). I have no link but the study was made in Bø
That reminds me of this cute (or maybe sad) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImdlZtOU80
Oh wow. Could we domesticate beavers and train them to clean up our houses??? 🤣 Obviously they'd need to be bred to be trained to only clean up certain items.