Friday 30 January 2015

Here’s why 76 beavers were forced to skydive into the Idaho wilderness in 1948

Here’s why 76 beavers were forced to skydive into the Idaho wilderness in 1948


Some time in the late 1940s, a very patient, elderly beaver called Geronimo was put in a box, flown to an altitude of between 150 and 200 metres, and tossed out the side of an aeroplane. Over and over and over again. He didn’t know it at the time – because beavers – but each time Geronimo survived the trip back down to that little flying field in Idaho, he was bringing one of the nuttiest solutions to wildlife relocation ever dreamed up closer to reality.

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