About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Fauna of Lithuania, Flora of Lithuania, Valerian, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Eurasian Beaver, List of mammals of Lithuania, Acer platanoides, Lythrum salicaria, Hyoscyamus niger, Dactylis glomerata, Campanula rotundifolia, Tussilago farfara, Viburnum opulus, Primula veris, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Cirsium vulgare, Solanum dulcamara, Mountain Hare, Vaccinium uliginosum, Tilia cordata, Cicuta virosa, Galium odoratum, Mentha aquatica, Anthriscus sylvestris, Thymus serpyllum, Ground-elder, Mentha arvensis, Rhinanthus minor, Galium verum, Andromeda polifolia, Lamium purpureum, Cardamine pratensis, Soprano Pipistrelle, Montia fontana, Veronica officinalis, Solidago virgaurea, Sarmatic mixed forests, Centaurea scabiosa, Bidens tripartita, Plantago media, Campanula glomerata, Calamagrostis epigejos, Thlaspi arvense, Sium latifolium. Excerpt: The Eurasian beaver or European beaver (Castor fiber) is a species of beaver, which was once widespread in Eurasia, where it was hunted to near extinction both for fur and for castoreum, a secretion of its scent gland believed to have medicinal properties. Re-introduced through much of its former range, it now occurs from the British Isles to China and Mongolia. The fur colour of Eurasian beavers varies geographically. Light, chestnut-rust is the dominant colour in Belarus. In Russia, the beavers of the Sozh River basin are predominantly blackish brown, while beavers in the Voronezh Reserve are equally distributed between brown and blackish-brown. Eurasian beavers on average weigh 18 kg, the largest specimen on record having weighed 31.7 kg. Although superficially similar to the North American beaver, there are several important differences. Eurasian beavers tend to have less rounded heads, longer, narrower muzzles, thinner, shorter, and lighter underfur, narrower, less oval-shaped tails, ..
