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Empire and Canadian Beavers

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by Charles MudedeThis is how we do it... /gettyimages.com
History is full of surprises. Here is one. Near the middle of the 20th century, Argentina imported 40 or so beavers from Canada and released them in the tip of South America, Tierra del Fuego. This tip is shared by Chile and Argentina. The inspiration for the ecological experiment was, of course, money. A lucrative fur market, however, never materialized; but due to a lack of predators (North American bears eat beavers), the rodent very q

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