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SpeciesRodentiaCastoridae
Mammals

🦫Eurasian beaver

Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758

De bever (Castor fiber) is een aquatisch knaagdier dat voorkomt in Europa en Noord-Azië. Het is het grootste knaagdier van Europa en een van de grootste knaagdieren ter wereld. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1758 gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus in Systema naturae.

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≈ a third of your weight
Also called
Castor fiber
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
19 kg
Body length
0.77 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
35 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian beaver

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

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

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  • 25 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
0.77 mestimated
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Brain mass
45 g
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Maximum lifespan
35 years
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Generation length
9.02 years
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Age at maturity
2.8 years
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Gestation
107 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 105 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
about 3
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  • 3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Volume l
19 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyCastoridae
  6. ›genusCastor
  7. ›speciesCastor fiber
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familyCastoridae
  4. genusCastor
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  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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Closest relative on this site
🦫 Canadian beaver — last shared an ancestor ≈ 4.0 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Europäischer Biber (de), bóbr europejski (pl), 유럽비버 (ko), Castor d'Europe (fr), Castor fiber (es), eurázsiai hód (hu) … and 26 more languages
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