In Munich, children saved a beaver from certain death in an orphaned swimming pool. They discovered the completely exhausted animal while playing on a deserted property and called the fire brigade without further ado, as they announced on Sunday.
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Firefighters caught the beaver with a landing net and released it at a nearby stream. According to the fire brigade, the children found the animal on Saturday evening. It could not climb the walls of the old swimming pool on its own because there were no stairs, only a ladder. The water in the basin was only 20 centimeters high.
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According to the BUND, beavers had temporarily disappeared completely in Bavaria, the animals were hunted too heavily. However, in the late 1960s, conservationists began to reintroduce them to the wild. Today it is no longer so unlikely to encounter the animals on an evening walk, writes the BUND.
“In many regions of Bavaria, the hard-working rodent has now taken quarters at every suitable watercourse – in the nature reserve as well as in the middle of the city,” they say. Accordingly, the animals now live on Museum Island in Munich. In total, more than 40,000 rodents live in Germany today.
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