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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9293865" data-attributes="member: 7044704">You've never actually dealt with a real life beaver, have you?  They're highly territorial, regularly fight each other to the death for trespassing as young ones migrate in search of their own turf, and while they'll usually flee from something the size of a human they're as dangerous when cornered as a rat - if a rat was the size of a large dog with a bite that can go right through bone.  Like most rodents their bite strength is phenomenal, and highly likely to cause infections.  One of them maimed a beagle around here when I was a kid, and both my father and I have been snapped at by them when clearing their dams so our whole property doesn't flood and destroy woodlands that have taken a century to grow in.  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_attack" target="_blank">There's nothing cute about beavers</a>, and if they have rabies they're actively dangerous to everything around them.Upscale them to the six feet or so  prehistoric varieties reached and you've got something that's a real threat even to a party of humans armed with melee weapons and bows - and you don't wear armor in the wetlands they live in unless you want to die with your lungs full of muddy water.  Dam-building is also immensely destructive to established ecologies, which makes quests to hunt them before they ruin arable land and healthy forest perfectly reasonable adventure seeds - even from druidic types if they can't talk them into moving on voluntarily.  Beavers big or small are one of the few species besides man that severely damage the environment for their own convenience, and the wetlands they form are usually too transient to be worth the damage they deal.  The fool things eat all the accessible food too quickly and move on, leaving behind decaying dams and a wasteland of drowned stumps and mud flats that will take years to recover.</blockquote>

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