Interesting Things!
Here’s a few interesting things, starting with beavers…

Beavers have been reintroduced to Scotland. Beavers had been extinct in Britain for about 400 years. The species was hunted to extinction there. In 2009 11 beavers were introduced to a ‘dead’ river in Scotland. And they flourished and so did the river, the plants and animals which live in and along it, and more. Yes! Beavers have been, and are, being reintroduced to other places in Britain as well, which is a good thing, I think.

There are beavers which live up the creek from my parent’s property. They have built dams which make useful ponds and they stop the lower levels of the creek, like where my parents live, from flooding. I love visiting their ponds and dams.

Dogs:
New archaeological evidence shows that the friendship between humans and dogs goes back at least 5,000 more years than previously thought. So, about 15,000 years ago the two species lived together and were ‘friends’. This is earlier than farm animals and cats were domesticated (as far as we know for now!).

The archaeological evidence, a bone, was found in a cave in the Cheddar gorge. Yea, where cheese is made and aged! Woot!

Elephants:
Archaeologists working in Spain have probably found the first direct evidence of Hannibal’s elephants in Europe. This is from 218 BCE during the second Punic war, when Hannibal crossed the Alps (from Carthage in North Africa, to Spain, across the Alps, to Italy) with a company of elephants. The bone was found along with a lot of other items which lead archaeologists and historians to believe the elephant was killed during a battle in Spain before the journey across the Alps. Wow!

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