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North American Beaver, Humber River near Kleinburg, Ontario (39637607974)🦫

Photo: Vlad Podvorny · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesRodentiaCastoridae
Mammals

🦫Canadian beaver

Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820

A kanadai hód (Castor canadensis) a rágcsálók (Rodentia) rendjébe és a hódfélék (Castoridae) családjába tartozó faj, kulcsfaj. Nagyobb testű rokona az eurázsiai hód.

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80
Photos
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Measurements
13
vs you
≈ a third of your weight
Also called
North American Beaver
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
20 kg
Body length
0.78 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Canadian beaver

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
20 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 20 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.78 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
45 g
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Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 23 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
7.28 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.8 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
114 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 128 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
0.06 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.6 per km²
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Volume l
20 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Canadian beaver yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyCastoridae
  6. ›genusCastor
  7. ›speciesCastor canadensis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familyCastoridae
  4. genusCastor
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderCastorimorpha
  13. familyCastoridae
  14. genusCastor
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More about the Canadian beaver

Closest relative on this site
🦫 Eurasian beaver — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.0 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
美洲河狸 (zh), Bóbr kanadyjski (pl), בונה קנדי (he), castor du Canada (fr), 아메리카비버 (ko), Castor canadensis (es) … and 25 more languages

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