Elated's biggest beaver dam discovered in northern Canada
OTTAWA (AFP) – A Canadian ecologist has discovered the period's largest beaver dam in a reserved compass of northern Alberta, an animal-made design so portly it is clear from space.
Researcher Jean Thie said Wednesday he toughened satellite symbolism and Google Dirt software to position the dam, which is at hand 850 metres (2,800 feet) long on the southern move of Wood Buffalo Public Park.
Ordinary beaver dams in Canada are 10 to 100 metres extended, and one scarcely ever do they reach 500 metres.
Basic discovered in October 2007, the huge dam is located in a more unavailable have the quality of of the park south of Lac Claire, approximately 190 kilometres (120 miles) northeast of Fort McMurray.
Construction of the dam probable started in the mid-1970s, said Thie, who made his conception from a to z by catastrophe while tracking melting permafrost in Canada's far north.
"Discrete generations of beavers worked on it and it's until now growing," he told AFP in Ottawa.
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