Even adults confuse the two, because beavers and muskrats are easiest to identify by their tails, but those aren’t always visible when these cute brown furry cousins are swimming. Beaver tails ...

Muskrats are common in many of the islands ponds and wetlands. At only two to four pounds they are much smaller than their cousin the beaver which can easily reach 50 pounds. If you see a mammal ...

This is the first of three articles on common night visitors in this region, looking at beaver and nutria ... beneficial native wildlife like muskrats, nutria make their presence known in annoying ...

And now, biologists from the Bronx Zoo have taken pictures ... it was a muskrat," said Eric Sanderson, an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the zoo. The beaver lodge ...

Consider the muskrat. A muskrat can be thought of as a low-rent version of a beaver — they toil but do not build, their tails make no signature slap upon the waters when startled, trapped ...

Video cameras placed inside lodges by researchers have revealed that it’s not unusual for one or two muskrats to move in with a beaver family during winter. Even though both rodent species swim ...

by 7News Staff TOPICS: WASHINGTON (7News) — A muskrat was spotted on Friday at ... However, NPS said that even if a beaver or any other animal tries chewing on the trees, it will not move ...

“It’s a beaver!” “No, it’s a muskrat!” “It’s a beaver!” “No, it’s a muskrat!” ADVERTISING Such exclamations are often heard at Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Va ...