Assertion: beaver | /r/CapableOf | build dam
Facets:
value: to create ponds
type: PURPOSE
value: in a stream
type: LOCATION
value: to stop the water
type: PURPOSE
value: in areas
type: LOCATION
value: along waterways
type: LOCATION
value: in the absence of existing ponds
type: OTHER
value: to flood areas
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: before building their lodges
type: TEMPORAL
value: to make
type: PURPOSE
value: out of tree branches
type: LOCATION
value: in summer
type: TEMPORAL
value: by using teeth
type: MANNER
value: with these
type: OTHER
value: out of logs
type: OTHER
value: in fall
type: TEMPORAL
value: on flowing water
type: LOCATION
value: in an effort
type: TEMPORAL
value: to turn streams
type: PURPOSE
value: for a myriad of reasons
type: CAUSE
value: to trap high tides
type: PURPOSE
value: in an attempt
type: TEMPORAL
value: to provide them
type: PURPOSE
value: on the fence
type: LOCATION
value: by the speaker
type: OTHER
value: from wood
type: OTHER
value: in order to flood a large enough area
type: PURPOSE
value: out of trees
type: OTHER
value: to deter predators
type: PURPOSE
value: often
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: I wasn’t particularly concerned last fall when I spotted beavers building a dam in the little stream that runs through our property.
text: Beavers often construct a dam a short distance downstream from the lodge to deter predators.
text: They can create a dam that reaches up to 10-feet high.
text: They invest much energy in their territories, building their dams and becoming familiar with the area.
text: The beavers began covering the sound player with branches and mud, building up a dam.
text: Just as a Beaver builds his dam, your tools and special gifts can be used to provide comfort for you and your family.
text: They create a dam by layering together twigs mud leaves and wood that they have collected each day a beaver can move up to 200 kilos of wood Leaves and other debris to help build the dam the longest dam ever discovered was 1.5 kilometers long after they have made it down.
text: The beaver builds its dams out of trees and branches that it has felled itself.
text: Beavers may build several dams along waterways in order to flood a large enough area for a safe home.
text: The beavers built up their dams by the speaker until it effectively was silenced.
text: When a beaver builds a dam, the main purpose is to create a flooded area to hide a lodge.
text: No wonder the beaver chooses to surround itself with water and builds a dam to make sure there's enough.
text: When the beaver build a dam on the fence, a "beaver pipe" can be placed through the fence to keep the water at a desired level (see Figure 2).
text: To create a habitat, beavers build a dam in a stream, flooding an area of the woods and creating a pond in which the beaver can build a lodge.
text: When a beaver builds a dam, the community of river-dwelling invertebrates that prefer running water is wholly replaced by a new community comprised of pond-dwelling critters.
text: When a beaver builds a dam, the community of river-dwelling invertebrates that prefer running water, like blackflies, scraping mayflies, and spinning caddisflies, is wholly replaced by a new community comprised of pond-dwelling critters like dragonflies, worms, and filtering clams.
text: When beavers come into a new location, they first build dams across small streams.
text: They create a wide, cone-shaped lodge with underwater entrances to live in, and they build dams to provide them with areas of deep, calm water within which to build their lodge.
text: When beavers build dams, they create a storage mechanism for water, but more importantly, a deep storage mechanism.
text: Beavers build dams to create ponds, and lodges to live in
text: Learn how beavers build their houses called lodges, what they eat, where beaver species live, why beavers build dams and much more.
text: Beavers build dams mainly in an attempt to create a more optimal habitat in which to live.
text: Though most people know what beavers are, and that they build dams, that is about as far as their knowledge goes.
text: However, some beavers inhabit the intertidal zone in river estuaries, building dams to trap high tides in a beaver pond for similar purposes.
text: Beavers build dams for a myriad of reasons, and one is so that the lake behind it will grow deep enough to ensure it doesn’t freeze all the way through during the winter.
text: not all beavers build dams,” says Taylor.
text: One of the primary reasons beavers build dams is to surround their lodge with water for protection from predators.
text: The need for safety is the primary reason beavers build dams to create ponds.
text: Aside from making cozy homes for their families and their friends, beavers play a leading role in nature's big picture when they build dams.
text: Beavers build dams in order to create a pond in which to build their homes (called beaver lodges).
text: When beavers build dams, they create new wetland environments for other species.
text: Beavers build dams across waterways creating ponds behind them and then build their lodges in the center of the pond.
text: Why do beavers build dams?
text: Beavers build dams to turn streams into ponds.
text: Beavers build dams, which create ponds and wetlands.
text: Beavers build dams to slow down the flow of water in streams and rivers and then build stable lodges for shelter.
text: Beavers are building dams of whatever they can found including sticks, rocks and even mud.
text: If the water is not deep enough to keep beavers safe from predators and their lodge entrances ice-free, beavers build dams.
text: Beavers typically make burrows near ponds and lakes, but they can also build dams in less- appropriate areas to make a habitat more suitable; by building structures made out of logs and mud in these less-suitable areas, they can block off streams and rivers to make the ponds that they desire.
text: Beavers build dams mainly in an effort to produce a more optimal habitat to live.
text: They build dams to stop the water from running, so a pocket of deep water is created.
text: The beaver is a large rodent that builds dams and dens.
text: Beavers often fell trees to help them build dams.
text: Beavers build dams from wood, but the resourceful rodents will add stones, plants, and even clothing.
text: They also live on deeper lakes or rivers where they don’t need to build dams.
text: Beavers building dams have often been photographed by researchers studying this interesting behavioral trait in these creatures.
text: The beavers do not build dams in areas with fast, deep flowing rivers and streams but build dams in areas with shallow, slow flowing water to prevent the blockage of the underwater entrance to their lodges by ice in winter and also to create a water body with sufficient depth to hide themselves from their predators.
text: Beavers build dams that naturally restore our land’s best life support system.
text: Beavers build dams that change the course of streams and create ponds.
text: They build dams and lodges using sticks, bark (from deciduous trees), mud, and logs (that they fell themselves).
text: not all beavers build dams,” says Taylor.
text: In areas where the natural water level is too low, beavers will construct a dam.  
text: In the absence of existing ponds, beavers must construct dams before building their lodges.
text: In the absence of existing ponds, beavers must construct dams before building their lodges.
text: With these it constructs dams and homes which are known as ‘lodges’.
text: If the habitat does not have the necessary water level, beavers construct dams.
text: By using teeth and paws, beavers construct lodges, storehouses, dams, and canals.
text: Beavers construct dams to flood areas which will then give them access to food and protection.
text: Beavers construct dams to flood areas which will then give them access to food and protection.
text: Beavers construct dams on flowing water to back up the water so that it becomes deep enough to swim in.
text: Beavers construct dams out of logs, trees, leaves and mud that are very effective at stopping up water flow in a small stream or pond.
text: Beaver create dams to make ponds, their favorite place to live.
text: As we have already learnt, beavers create dams that flood certain areas, causing wetlands.
text: Beavers create dams in order to facilitate the creation of deep-water ponds to protect themselves against predators.
text: They create dams out of tree branches, logs and mud, which helps to maintain ideal water levels.
text: They create dams in order to facilitate the creation of deep-water ponds to protect themselves against predators.
text: They invest much energy in their territories, building their dams and becoming familiar with the area.
text: Beavers tend to build their dams in summer and fall, so be on the lookout for these impressive structures.
text: When building their dams and lodges, beavers alter the paths of streams and rivers and allow for the creation of extensive wetland habitats.