Nature & Environment

Video of parachuting beavers surfaces online

By T.K. Randall
October 24, 2015 ·  9 comments

The beavers were placed in boxes and dropped by parachute. Image Credit: YouTube / idahofishgame Discovered by an Idaho historian, the long-lost video footage, which was filmed by the state's department of fish and game, documented a bizarre experiment involving wild beavers.

At the time there were far too many of these animals in some regions and not enough in others, so to solve this problem officials went out and captured beavers from the overpopulated areas, sealed them inside travel boxes and then dropped them by parachute over the underpopulated areas.The film of the experiment had been lost for over 65 years until historian Sharon Clark found it in an archive where it had been mislabeled and stored in the wrong file.

The restored footage, which has since been uploaded on to YouTube, can be viewed below.

The segment involving the parachuting beavers begins at around the seven minute mark.


Source: The Guardian | Comments (9)

Tags: Parachute, Beavers