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A video about a stately beaver in downtown Augsburg delights internet users. This is also due to the behavior of the animal at the Jakobertor.
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He certainly has no idea that he’s now a minor celebrity. The video with the beaver was out thousands of times
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Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and distributed dozens of times. The furry animal, which was filmed a few days ago waddling across a street at the Jakobertor at night, inspires people. Mainly because the beaver is not only impressive in size, but also has a large portion of civil disobedience.
The beaver at Augsburg’s Jakobertor does not believe in the curfew
The beaver is out at 1.30 a.m. He is ignoring the curfew caused by the pandemic. But not only that. He doesn’t even care that the pedestrian light he is crossing points to red. On the Internet, fans celebrate the Augsburg beaver from the Jakobertor for being so insubordinate. “He also has his rights, even without FFP2” or “Madness, he’s got the calm”, it is commented. In fact, it’s funny to watch how sedate the little colossus crosses the streets. Sarah Kokocinski is behind the video recording
Affing in the Aichach-Friedberg district.
Why the beaver filmmaker was out in Augsburg so late
The 31-year-old had a good reason to be in Augsburg at this time. She picked up her husband from the main train station, who had previously landed at Frankfurt Airport after a business trip and then took the train to Augsburg. She is happy about her successful recording, which she added music and posted on her decoration blog at “Pix The World” auf Facebook and Instagram published. But there is one thing that annoys her. “Quite a few people copied the video and posted it under their own name. In some of their responses, they pretended to have filmed the beaver themselves. You don’t do that.”
In any case, in times like these, when there is a lot of unpleasant news every day, such an animal video seems to be a pleasant change. “Finally something beautiful. Biber, I’ll have a beer for you,” says one of the many posts below the video. The beaver doesn’t seem to be a stranger. Some internet users have wanted to know him for years.
A woman writes that she almost caught him on the tram once. Seven years ago, our editorial team reported on a large beaver at the Jakobertor. This, however, adhered to the traffic light display and only padded across the street when it was green. In theory, it could also be one and the same. Then the beaver would have become more rebellious in old age. In fact, it is not uncommon to encounter a beaver in town.
There are around 100 beavers in Augsburg that pose no threat to people
Augsburg’s beaver officer Monika Weber has already reported around 100 to 140 animals in the city area. “The population will not change much in the coming years,” she said in an interview with our editorial team. By the mid-1960s, the beaver was almost extinct in Bavaria, only being rescued through reintroduction. Beavers are strictly protected. The removal of beaver castles, dams or relocation are not permitted. Monika Weber describes the fur bearers as “intelligent, frugal, somewhat sedate on land, but not aggressive towards humans.”
Beavers, including their tails, which are known as trowels in technical jargon, grow to be about one meter long and weigh up to 30 kilograms. “They live to be up to 15 years old and live in a district with their partner.” There are around 20 districts in the city. There has to be one thing at the sports facility south.
Tobias Sailer lives with his wife and daughter at the Sportanlage-Süd in Augsburg and has called the beaver on his own doorstep “Locke the Boss”. The animal waddles along the street every evening between 7 and 8 pm.
Video: Tobias Sailer
Because that’s where the Sailer family lives and has been watching a beaver for years. Everyone knows each other, every evening between 7 and 8 p.m. the beaver walks along Walter-Heim-Strasse, where there is a small canal, “says father Tobias Sailer.” It’s also a huge brackish, like the one at Jakobertor. He waddles completely relaxed, he’s not afraid of cars at all. “Sailer estimates the animal at 30 kilos. The family has given the beaver a name: Locke the Boss – the name of a film character. Beavers always have the potential to become small film stars, like shows itself on the animal from the Jakobertor.
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