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    Jul 11, 2019 2 minutes

    Busy as a beaver

    ■ Dear HIW,

    I’m a keen animal lover and one of my favourite creatures is the beaver. I think they are very clever animals because they can build dams. But I wanted to know, why do they have such flat tails?

    Wren Tolstoy

    The tail of a beaver has

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