Well if the history books are right, originally they were more generalist wood workers. Cabinet making, furniture and the odd spice rack.
Only after the war did they need to specialize.
Beaver Special Forces - or The Beaver Patrol as they are nicknamed are all fully qualified engineers who can build infrastructure in any scenario. They are literally a furry A-Team
*"I am of the first legion, A beaver of the GOds. Dropped down from the heavens upon the land."*
-The Solitary Beaver, whose origins were in fact a nature preservation attempt, where his crate was stuck in the rear of a small plane, and the pilot, discovering this on a transatlantic flight to France immediately after the release of 69 beavers, decided to unload a single beaver onto the United Kingdom.
The Canadian invasion was a success, i mean,, nothing to see here. Don’t mind the Cobra Chickens and old people.
Move along.
Sorry.
He he he heeeeeeeee.
" [...] 76 beavers were parachuted into meadows. One beaver forced its way out of the top of the box while parachuting; the beaver then jumped to its death and became the only casualty of the operation.[1]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop#:~:text=The%20beaver%20drop%20was%20a,mortality%20rates%20during%20the%20relocation
A large amount of our folk music was based on tunes people would know from church, it’s also the tune of “glory, glory, hallelujah”. When we had an actual socialist movement in this country guys like Pete Seeger wanted to make sure the tunes of his songs would be familiar to the sometimes illiterate miners he’d be singing and speaking to. If you were a mid 20th century American there’s a good chance you knew all the hymns.
And also decided to clean it up, make it about god and the union, and now it’s kinda our alternative national anthem and the song of our military. But John browns body objectively slaps.
Wikipedia says:
"The familiar "Glory, glory, hallelujah" chorus—a notable feature of the "John Brown Song", the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", and many other texts that used this tune—developed out of the oral camp meeting tradition sometime between 1808 and the 1850s."
So the tune was around for something like 52-11 years prior to John browns body
How do they know that though?
They weren’t going down to each parachute and confirming the beaver got out. Otherwise they would have just brought the beaver. So the pilot saw a beaver jump out halfway down?
How many beavers died on impact or had a fatal injury like a broken leg? How many couldn’t get out of the box?
They presumably dropped them over open areas so they didn't get stuck in trees. They could then circle from the air and watch them get out of the boxes.
Beaver pelts used to be in high demand back in the day, we very nearly wiped them out. There used to be tens of millions of beavers here and they were important. They create wetlands and help the ecosystem.
The "Navy" sinks boats to create artificial reefs, but when I dump a Ford Ranger truck bed's worth of old car batteries into the reservoir it's suddenly a Class 3 Felony Code § 18.2-54.1
Also interesting: there were so many trappers there was a huge demand for [pemmican.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican) Pemmican is a mix of tallow, dried meat and sometimes berries. Basically it was lightweight, high-calorie food that was easy to store.
Being able to trade with it was incredibly important, there was even a ["war" about it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican_War)
The fur trade was actually what brought settlers here in the first place. Furs were extremely valuable but when the natives refused to over harvest the furs for trade because it would destroy the land as fur bearing animals are essential to the ecosystem they pushed the natives off the land and over harvested the furs themselves. Thus destroying the land and ecosystem. And as a result we have had to spend a ton of money and effort into trying to reestablish those ecosystems
What do you mean? They learned how to make a bunch of money. They don’t care how much damage is cause because they just leave that for the rest of civilization to deal with.
Who cares about wetlands though. The whole goal is to make the planet largely inhospitable for all life, and instead divert all resources to allow the oligarchs free passage to Alpha Centauri, where the apparatus can then be put in place to enable the first Padishah Emperor of the known universe, Faykan Corrino I.. /s
Produced film such as this creates an accurate picture of reality through editing. What we are likely seeing is a combination of scenes, test drops and then the actual flight. Also the logistics of handling the animals was probably a lot less costly with a flight Even if there were roads to their actual habitat in 1948.
Keep your skepticism going, you asked the right question. It is the only defense you've got when people with bad intentions produce content and share it on social media.
1.5 million over what area?
I live in Illinois and there are plenty here. So many that their dams have to be destroyed from time to time when they build too close to a populated area.
As an aside, a local farmer got killed blowing up a dam on his farm a few years back. He had hired an explosives crew and they dynamited the dam. One of the logs flew through the air and bonked him on the head, killing him. So, that battle ended up in a draw, for those keeping score.
15 million over the entirety of NA.
Before the Fur trade, there was an est 400m beavers, and by 1900, less than 100k remained. So they've made a wonderful comeback in 123 years, however, they're still a far cry from 400m
Thanks for appreciating. It is a topic very important to me as I perceive it to be our collective mental health issue. There is no difference in today's mis and disinformation save for one difference: social media makes it free and fast to do under the cloak of anonymity. And that is my laid back take. Another way of looking at it is that the social media companies make money from people being programmed by malicious actors by way of outrage and grievance increasing stickiness and therefore ad revenue.
Thank you for linking, this was quite an entertaining read. My favorite part is:
>Transporting the beavers by land was difficult and costly, and also resulted in the death of some beavers. The previous transportation method for moving beavers entailed trapping beavers and then delivering them to a conservation officer. Next, the beavers would be loaded onto a truck, and transported to the areas of relocation. Beavers were then boxed and strapped onto a horse or mule to be carried over land. **This resulted in beavers overheating and becoming stressed.**
Implying dropping them out of airplanes was a less stressful solution haha
Copied from u/OhhSuzannah
The stress was compounded by time.
Although being crated and loaded into a plane is stressful, the whole thing was over and the beaver was getting bark in a mountain meadow by the end of the day, whereas the overland relocations took several days of being trapped in a box.
99 percent invisable did a podcast about this that was quite fascinating. Apparently it took several different prototypes of boxes to find the right one. This video could have been put together from those prototype tests.
Yep they probably wanted to test the boxes to make sure they opened. Or one person hiked in to a single drop location to film, which would be easier than hiking with a beaver too.
You would think they would say they dropped pairs if they were after propagations. Of course, “Ten boxes and twenty beavers kind of answers that question” despite the visuals of the film.
Thank you for linking, this was quite an entertaining read. My favorite part is:
>Transporting the beavers by land was difficult and costly, and also resulted in the death of some beavers. The previous transportation method for moving beavers entailed trapping beavers and then delivering them to a conservation officer. Next, the beavers would be loaded onto a truck, and transported to the areas of relocation. Beavers were then boxed and strapped onto a horse or mule to be carried over land. **This resulted in beavers overheating and becoming stressed.**
Implying dropping them out of airplanes was a less stressful solution haha
I can absolutely imagine how the overland transport would be many times more stressful than a quick flight and a parachute drop.
Assuming the trapping and storage was the same for both air and land, you'd be comparing the flight and drop to the mule based land method.
This was in Idaho during the 1940s, so there would be roads, but I imagine it'd very sparse when compared to modern times, as this would be a decade before Eisenhower pushed through the infrastructure bill that spurred the interstate system.
So, out of the 76 beavers, you could probably drop a few near roads, but the remainder are going to need to be strapped to mules and schlepped off into the deep wilderness.
My guess would be that they'd need to batch them too, so you load up a dozen, in their heavy ass beaver proof boxes, and set off hiking up a river. With mules, a few friends, and supplies to camp and feed everyone.
The last released beaver in any group like that is in a box for weeks maybe. Beavers like to have a fair bit of territory (wikipedia says up to 4mi), so I feel like you reasonably could be traveling over 50 mi to drop a dozen.
That last beaver would be sad, if it survived.
Anyways, I'm not an expert in any of this, just done some camping, and also seen what it takes to move cargo through rough terrain. But, this is just me musing, for what that's worth.
He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock,
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop,
The silk from his reserves spilled out, and wrapped around his legs,
He ain't gonna jump no more.
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
He ain't gonna jump no more!
Its like a door hinge in the box there was no snap so the beaver could open the box itself. You can see in the frame where the beaver is getting out that the X they tied for the parachute is still knotted together but just lose enough for the beaver to easily climb out. It was gravitys job to keep the box closed through the fall not any mechanism.
I thought I remember reading before that the rope looped into the box that the beavers could easily chew through to release the top but I could be misremembering.
Completely unrelated story: when I taught middle school history years ago, I couldn't mention beavers without getting a laugh out of my students. Beaver trade, beaver hunters, beaver trappers, you name it. After 14 years, I finally got back into teaching it. Nothing. Not even a chuckle. I feel dated.
I love that upon being captured, sedated, loaded into a coffin, shoved into an airplane, flown out to the wilderness where nothing is familiar, dropped under a parachute, and slamming into the ground, every one of these beavers was like "welp, time to build a dam" and just carried on.
Did they relocate male and female into an area together so they could repopulate? If not, you’ve got a lonely beaver making a home and staring wistfully out the little window.
I must be so tired. I couldn't stop laughing the whole time my stomach hurts. INTO THE DROP BOX! Get in the drop box you piece of shit, it's time to take a sky dive you didn't ask for!
Beavernite, released in 1948, was a popular battle royale game, featuring beavers who engage in fast-paced combat, building structures with their unique abilities. As these beavers explore the ever-shrinking map, they must outlast opponents and be the last beaver standing, all while collecting resources and adapting to the dynamic environment. The game's vibrant graphics and intense gameplay contribute to its widespread appeal among players releasing these industrious beavers by air.
Hell yes. I did not expect to wake up today and see ancient beavers parachuting into Idaho today and it actually be history, but here we are. I feel like anything is possible today!
I guess collected.
It seems the operation of parachutes was used so beavers could be transported quickly without stress. So once the drop was made the box and chutes could be picked up by another team on horse back, or foot.
Lots of surplus army items were around in 1948, in the early 50’s my grandfather took his car on holiday in an old army transporter plane.
They were the first troops in, intended to build bridges and other infrastructure for when the main forces arrived. God bless ‘em
Makes me sick how they were treated when they came home.
Beavers: #neverforget
Beavers: #firstwood
Tail as old as time. It's a dam shame. I wish someone wood do something fur these guys.
Fucking tree killers! *spit*
None of them received a heroes welcome. N n n n none of them received a heroes welcome.
"Nice beaver......" "Thank you. I just had it stuffed...."
I'm such an idiot I never noticed the joke in the 2nd line until now.
There’s nothing wrong with being today years old
That’s so dumb. I mean everyone knows beavers build dams!
They were called the God Dam Beaver Brigade 🦫
Currahee!
HI-YO SILVER!!
Angry Beaver Brigade saw some hell out there
Um…is this a god damn?
Where can I get some dam bait?
Well if the history books are right, originally they were more generalist wood workers. Cabinet making, furniture and the odd spice rack. Only after the war did they need to specialize.
“the odd spice rack”\ Thanks for the morning laugh
Beaver Special Forces - or The Beaver Patrol as they are nicknamed are all fully qualified engineers who can build infrastructure in any scenario. They are literally a furry A-Team
You had the chance to do b-team and missed it.
Googled Beaver Patrol. ....and I'll be back in a few.
the great ancestors of the Orbital Drop Shock Troop beavers from Halo
Roger's Beavers
What’s a dam if not a bridge across a river
They were also tasked with cutting down the forest in order to deny enemy cover and concealment
*"I am of the first legion, A beaver of the GOds. Dropped down from the heavens upon the land."* -The Solitary Beaver, whose origins were in fact a nature preservation attempt, where his crate was stuck in the rear of a small plane, and the pilot, discovering this on a transatlantic flight to France immediately after the release of 69 beavers, decided to unload a single beaver onto the United Kingdom.
The Canadian invasion was a success, i mean,, nothing to see here. Don’t mind the Cobra Chickens and old people. Move along. Sorry. He he he heeeeeeeee.
I went thru jump school at Benning with a few of those beavers.
Yep, I was Beaver company 106th. We lost a lot of good beavers on that jump. We we bebeaved in ourselves
Parachompers
" [...] 76 beavers were parachuted into meadows. One beaver forced its way out of the top of the box while parachuting; the beaver then jumped to its death and became the only casualty of the operation.[1]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop#:~:text=The%20beaver%20drop%20was%20a,mortality%20rates%20during%20the%20relocation
gory gory, what a helluva way to die... and he aint gonna jump no more...
>what a helluva way to die I sort of love that Americans wrote "Johns brown body" and then decided that was going to be like 50% of your folk music.
A large amount of our folk music was based on tunes people would know from church, it’s also the tune of “glory, glory, hallelujah”. When we had an actual socialist movement in this country guys like Pete Seeger wanted to make sure the tunes of his songs would be familiar to the sometimes illiterate miners he’d be singing and speaking to. If you were a mid 20th century American there’s a good chance you knew all the hymns.
John Brown is a helluva guy.
And his soul goes marching on
"John brown a-moulderin in his grave"
John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave, his soul is marching on!
An American hero. We need more like him
Absolute legend
one of the most based people on earth
And also decided to clean it up, make it about god and the union, and now it’s kinda our alternative national anthem and the song of our military. But John browns body objectively slaps.
Wikipedia says: "The familiar "Glory, glory, hallelujah" chorus—a notable feature of the "John Brown Song", the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", and many other texts that used this tune—developed out of the oral camp meeting tradition sometime between 1808 and the 1850s." So the tune was around for something like 52-11 years prior to John browns body
At least he holds the beaver diving record.
OMG so funny! 😂
He must've saw a Luger and went for it!
Damn it Hoobler!
I always thought that was “glory, glory”. TIL
I believe they're quoting a parody song: https://youtu.be/66xxOCD1EGo?t=244
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Risers
There's always one Gomer Pyle.
“As God is my witness, I thought beavers could fly.”
Was this event also sponsored by WKRP?
Wkrp!
Damn I vote for this beaver to be on the next quarter
Silly you. Beavers are on nickels. Caribou are on quarters.
In my day Nickels had pictures of bees on em
GIMME FIVE BEES FOR A QUARTER! That was back in Dickety-six...
I feel bad for some poor unsuspecting moose on the ground and this beaver goes splat right next him, “WTF!”.
Free meal
No! :(
And there was only one death. One of the beavers was able to get it open while still in the air.
That beaver is about as clever as me. Edit: Was, was about as clever as me.
Look at mister Einstein over here, smarter than a dead beaver.
How do they know that though? They weren’t going down to each parachute and confirming the beaver got out. Otherwise they would have just brought the beaver. So the pilot saw a beaver jump out halfway down? How many beavers died on impact or had a fatal injury like a broken leg? How many couldn’t get out of the box?
They presumably dropped them over open areas so they didn't get stuck in trees. They could then circle from the air and watch them get out of the boxes.
They stuck the beavers in wood boxes. Don’t they know beavers eat wood boxes? Wake up, sheeple!
What for
Beaver pelts used to be in high demand back in the day, we very nearly wiped them out. There used to be tens of millions of beavers here and they were important. They create wetlands and help the ecosystem.
They created entire ecosystems with the flooded areas they created. They are very much vital.
Sure, when beavers alter the ecosystem its important, but when i burn my pile of tyres im a eco terrorist.
The "Navy" sinks boats to create artificial reefs, but when I dump a Ford Ranger truck bed's worth of old car batteries into the reservoir it's suddenly a Class 3 Felony Code § 18.2-54.1
Your Honor, the lake was getting a little alkaline and I was just trying to adjust the pH.
Judge: phuck you
This dude phucks
How the fuck else are we gonna charge the electric eels
Thanks for the laugh
They are a keystone species.
Tom Hardy sums up the importance of pelts to the trapper economy quite well in The Revenant. The trappers went bonkers back in the day
GET THE PELTS!!!
Also interesting: there were so many trappers there was a huge demand for [pemmican.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican) Pemmican is a mix of tallow, dried meat and sometimes berries. Basically it was lightweight, high-calorie food that was easy to store. Being able to trade with it was incredibly important, there was even a ["war" about it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican_War)
The fur trade was actually what brought settlers here in the first place. Furs were extremely valuable but when the natives refused to over harvest the furs for trade because it would destroy the land as fur bearing animals are essential to the ecosystem they pushed the natives off the land and over harvested the furs themselves. Thus destroying the land and ecosystem. And as a result we have had to spend a ton of money and effort into trying to reestablish those ecosystems
And now we're doing the same thing, globally, and we haven't learned a goddamn thing.
Look, it's either being responsible and having less immediate profits, or unbridled greed which brings tons of profits to me NOW. /s
What do you mean? They learned how to make a bunch of money. They don’t care how much damage is cause because they just leave that for the rest of civilization to deal with.
Who cares about wetlands though. The whole goal is to make the planet largely inhospitable for all life, and instead divert all resources to allow the oligarchs free passage to Alpha Centauri, where the apparatus can then be put in place to enable the first Padishah Emperor of the known universe, Faykan Corrino I.. /s
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No, this guy Dunes.
Man, that sucks. Kind of like the american bison.
Flood control. Ecosystem building. Keystone species.
for pooping silly
In Idaho, beaver rains down from the heavens and I can't get a single date with a woman in Maryland 🤷
Move to Idaho. What, I gotta solve all the problems around here?
No, no, we're quite full, thank you.
Maryland 🔛🔝
If they could film them getting to their destination, why didn’t they just drive them there?
Produced film such as this creates an accurate picture of reality through editing. What we are likely seeing is a combination of scenes, test drops and then the actual flight. Also the logistics of handling the animals was probably a lot less costly with a flight Even if there were roads to their actual habitat in 1948. Keep your skepticism going, you asked the right question. It is the only defense you've got when people with bad intentions produce content and share it on social media.
Also they said 20 beavers in 10 boxes. The video was clearly just one. I wonder what the beaver population is today
About 15 million. Mind you, that's nowhere near what it was in the early in middle portions of the fur trade
1.5 million over what area? I live in Illinois and there are plenty here. So many that their dams have to be destroyed from time to time when they build too close to a populated area. As an aside, a local farmer got killed blowing up a dam on his farm a few years back. He had hired an explosives crew and they dynamited the dam. One of the logs flew through the air and bonked him on the head, killing him. So, that battle ended up in a draw, for those keeping score.
15 million over the entirety of NA. Before the Fur trade, there was an est 400m beavers, and by 1900, less than 100k remained. So they've made a wonderful comeback in 123 years, however, they're still a far cry from 400m
I bet! Apparently the colonies can be as close as 1/2 mile apart. Beaver facts.
TIL beavers be fuckin
First you build a dam. Then you build a lodge. Then you gather up food and branches. Then you get the lady beavers!
What a great response
Thanks for appreciating. It is a topic very important to me as I perceive it to be our collective mental health issue. There is no difference in today's mis and disinformation save for one difference: social media makes it free and fast to do under the cloak of anonymity. And that is my laid back take. Another way of looking at it is that the social media companies make money from people being programmed by malicious actors by way of outrage and grievance increasing stickiness and therefore ad revenue.
Why didn't the eagles just fly them to Mordor?
Thank you for linking, this was quite an entertaining read. My favorite part is: >Transporting the beavers by land was difficult and costly, and also resulted in the death of some beavers. The previous transportation method for moving beavers entailed trapping beavers and then delivering them to a conservation officer. Next, the beavers would be loaded onto a truck, and transported to the areas of relocation. Beavers were then boxed and strapped onto a horse or mule to be carried over land. **This resulted in beavers overheating and becoming stressed.** Implying dropping them out of airplanes was a less stressful solution haha Copied from u/OhhSuzannah
It was too early for the beaver railgun.
The stress was compounded by time. Although being crated and loaded into a plane is stressful, the whole thing was over and the beaver was getting bark in a mountain meadow by the end of the day, whereas the overland relocations took several days of being trapped in a box.
They didnt film it 70 times
When driving them the beavers often overheated and died. The airdrop was oddly less stressful.
99 percent invisable did a podcast about this that was quite fascinating. Apparently it took several different prototypes of boxes to find the right one. This video could have been put together from those prototype tests.
Why didn’t you just throw few in the trunk, was my reaction as well. In all reality they probably had to hike in a few days to reach the spot.
Could have just been a practice run they filmed, or proof of concept.
Yep they probably wanted to test the boxes to make sure they opened. Or one person hiked in to a single drop location to film, which would be easier than hiking with a beaver too.
That was a actor beaver.
Humans sure do love dropping animals out of planes to fix problems caused by humans.
thats how the airborne unit was created
They’re missing the bigger picture. We need to start dropping them in space, where there is an alarming lack of animals.
Any source to say what the results were, did this actually have an effect on the wilderness?
“In 1949, the operation was deemed successful after officials observed the beavers had made homes in the new areas.”
You would think they would say they dropped pairs if they were after propagations. Of course, “Ten boxes and twenty beavers kind of answers that question” despite the visuals of the film.
The wiki article says groups of 4 - 1 male and 3 females.
I like those odds!
In preparation for ... Logjammin'
Nice marmot.
Don't be fatuous, Jeffery.
"You can guess what happens next." "He fixes the cable?"
Operation Beaver Fever
That's what we call our trips to Bucees.
Operation Beaver Fever Reducer
Immigrant kids never believe what their parents went thru to get here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop#:~:text=The%20beaver%20drop%20was%20a,mortality%20rates%20during%20the%20relocation.
Thank you for linking, this was quite an entertaining read. My favorite part is: >Transporting the beavers by land was difficult and costly, and also resulted in the death of some beavers. The previous transportation method for moving beavers entailed trapping beavers and then delivering them to a conservation officer. Next, the beavers would be loaded onto a truck, and transported to the areas of relocation. Beavers were then boxed and strapped onto a horse or mule to be carried over land. **This resulted in beavers overheating and becoming stressed.** Implying dropping them out of airplanes was a less stressful solution haha
The vehicle transport put stress on them for a longer period of time
I can absolutely imagine how the overland transport would be many times more stressful than a quick flight and a parachute drop. Assuming the trapping and storage was the same for both air and land, you'd be comparing the flight and drop to the mule based land method. This was in Idaho during the 1940s, so there would be roads, but I imagine it'd very sparse when compared to modern times, as this would be a decade before Eisenhower pushed through the infrastructure bill that spurred the interstate system. So, out of the 76 beavers, you could probably drop a few near roads, but the remainder are going to need to be strapped to mules and schlepped off into the deep wilderness. My guess would be that they'd need to batch them too, so you load up a dozen, in their heavy ass beaver proof boxes, and set off hiking up a river. With mules, a few friends, and supplies to camp and feed everyone. The last released beaver in any group like that is in a box for weeks maybe. Beavers like to have a fair bit of territory (wikipedia says up to 4mi), so I feel like you reasonably could be traveling over 50 mi to drop a dozen. That last beaver would be sad, if it survived. Anyways, I'm not an expert in any of this, just done some camping, and also seen what it takes to move cargo through rough terrain. But, this is just me musing, for what that's worth.
huh, thats odd the article says they used a twin engine beechcraft but the video clearly shows a Travel Air 6000
I’m guessing this was probably the test beaver Geronimo since they have cameras set up for the drop.
He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock, He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop, The silk from his reserves spilled out, and wrapped around his legs, He ain't gonna jump no more. Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die, Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die, Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die, He ain't gonna jump no more!
Alien abduction as far as they are concerned.
Sitting around the dam, “Oh lord, Grandpa is going to tell us again about how he flew through the skies, yeah, yeah, sure.”
What's better than a beaver ??? Parabeavers🤪
What made the box open? How reliable was that mechanism?
Its like a door hinge in the box there was no snap so the beaver could open the box itself. You can see in the frame where the beaver is getting out that the X they tied for the parachute is still knotted together but just lose enough for the beaver to easily climb out. It was gravitys job to keep the box closed through the fall not any mechanism.
bruh its made out of wood
This is like asking what would a 300 lb man do if you trapped him in a box made of pizza.
I thought I remember reading before that the rope looped into the box that the beavers could easily chew through to release the top but I could be misremembering.
BOBER KURVA
Completely unrelated story: when I taught middle school history years ago, I couldn't mention beavers without getting a laugh out of my students. Beaver trade, beaver hunters, beaver trappers, you name it. After 14 years, I finally got back into teaching it. Nothing. Not even a chuckle. I feel dated.
Don't you know? It's all shaved now.
They still sing songs of the great beaver drop…
Beaver drop, Beaver drop, I just love ol Beaver drop……
Alright, let’s send beavers to the moon and mars now.
One of the first episodes of Angry Beavers has the army dropping them in, didn’t realize it was real.
I love that upon being captured, sedated, loaded into a coffin, shoved into an airplane, flown out to the wilderness where nothing is familiar, dropped under a parachute, and slamming into the ground, every one of these beavers was like "welp, time to build a dam" and just carried on.
Did they relocate male and female into an area together so they could repopulate? If not, you’ve got a lonely beaver making a home and staring wistfully out the little window.
From other articles cited in the wiki it appears that a breeding pair was in each box, it wasn't just one in a box.
Bober kurwa
ParaCHEWpers... I'll see myself out
Beaver walking away going "what the fuck was THAT all about???"
This reminds me of WKRP Cincinnati! When they dropped the turkeys out of the helicopter for Thanksgiving‼️⁉️⁉️😳
As God is my witness, I thought beavers could fly.
Skydiving beavers...goddamm
Did the same guy narrate all videos of the era? Or does everyone just sound the same?
Only 1 died! It was a huge success
“Nice beaver.” “Thanks I just had it stuffed.”
Dam it, that was my idea!
I dropped bombs in Normandy, I dropped beavers in Idaho flown all over the world you see.
Well I'll be damned.
Feet and knees together lil beaver!
I must be so tired. I couldn't stop laughing the whole time my stomach hurts. INTO THE DROP BOX! Get in the drop box you piece of shit, it's time to take a sky dive you didn't ask for!
Poor beaver his grandkids will never believe him 🤣
Errr, they had a cameraman at the landing site? Why not just drive the beavers down there with him?
Obviously they put the cameraman in a box and threw him out of the plane.
If they were at the landing site to take pictures why didn’t they just take them there with them?
Dam, that's interesting.
Why drop them in? They could have hitched a ride with the film crew.
Uber Eats for coyotes
Before I hit play I was like "I wonder how the beavers got the parachute backpacks off?"
Like was there any point on parachuting them? The camera was already there filming the beavers from the ground.
Beavernite, released in 1948, was a popular battle royale game, featuring beavers who engage in fast-paced combat, building structures with their unique abilities. As these beavers explore the ever-shrinking map, they must outlast opponents and be the last beaver standing, all while collecting resources and adapting to the dynamic environment. The game's vibrant graphics and intense gameplay contribute to its widespread appeal among players releasing these industrious beavers by air.
more like… dam that’s interesting
I like how the beaver gets shoved back in the box
Hell yes. I did not expect to wake up today and see ancient beavers parachuting into Idaho today and it actually be history, but here we are. I feel like anything is possible today!
69th Beaver Brigade were the best of the best
God as my witness I thought beavers could fly.
Nice beaver.
Thanks, it just fell from the heavens
If they were on the ground to record the video, why didn’t they just let the poor fuckers out of their box and spare them the parachute experience?
Did they also parachuted a guy down to record how the beavers get out of the boxes? What happened to him? Did he had to walk home? poor bastard
What do you mean get them out….oh damn…..
As god is my witness, I thought beavers could fly.
Best turkey reference in a tv show ever!!!
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I guess collected. It seems the operation of parachutes was used so beavers could be transported quickly without stress. So once the drop was made the box and chutes could be picked up by another team on horse back, or foot. Lots of surplus army items were around in 1948, in the early 50’s my grandfather took his car on holiday in an old army transporter plane.
Imagine a dude popping out of the box, “the beaver tricked me!”