# @science on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DN3bZsqZjD9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33773890-science-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-27T17:01:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

## Caption

For beavers, monogamy is more about practicality than romance. They team up for life as a way to increase their chances of survival. Although one of their primary sources of food is tree bark, its lack of nutritional value means that beavers need to eat a lot of bark to keep themselves going. ⁠
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So, by pairing up, couples can split their workload and ensure everything gets done. In a 2015 study by Sam M J G Steyaert, Andreas Zedrosser, and Frank Rossel for Oecologia, the researchers found that tasks divided between pairs included maintaining their dams and lodges, guarding their territory, and sharing the parenting duties.⁠
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Source: BBC Earth⁠
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#science #biology #beavers #beaver

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