Beavers as Engineers
Humans and beavers both have a long history of engineering their environment by altering the flow of waterways. As Grady explains in this Practical Engineering video, our design philosophies even overlap to a degree! Humans differ, however, by tackling larger waterways and in (increasingly) thinking about the long-term impacts of our infrastructure. Beavers, on the other hand, build and act on a smaller scale, meaning that their engineering often has more net positives for an ecosystem–provided, of course, that beavers are native to that ecosystem! (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)
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