- This video shows an adult beaver with two of its kits feeding on alder leaves.
- The kits are usually born within the lodge in spring.
- They stay in the lodge for four or five weeks.
- The mother nurses them for 6-10 weeks.
- The kits begin to eat plant material when only 2.5 weeks old, while they are still drinking milk.
- When born the kits weigh about one pound.
- Several weeks after birth they may weight 6-9 pounds.
- At this time they start to leave the lodge regularly.
- For more information about beavers look at Beavers by the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska
