The largest rodent of fauna of Russia is the river beaver. The weight of adult individuals fluctuates from 16 to 30 kg though also larger copies meet. Average length of a trunk is 80-85 cm. To catch a beaver it is necessary to hold a number of preparatory activities.
Instruction
1. Carry out special survey and accounting of beaver settlements. After that it is possible to diagnose a possibility of catching of beavers in a certain area.
2. Plan sites where it is possible to carry out catching and decide on quantity of the individuals who are subject to catching. It is authorized to begin it after the termination at beavers of the period of reproduction and bringing up of cubs. In the central regions it occurs after July 10. Catching comes to an end, considering transportation time so that the release of animals happened several weeks prior to a freeze-up.
3. Carry out catching of beavers by a factory way. It osushchetvlyatsya by means of the metal zhivolovushka having curtain doors. To it, using a rubber ring, wings from a kapron grid which are necessary when catching beavers from a hatok in the deep-water or cluttered-up reservoirs join. Also the self-made trap made of the wire rods fastened with hoops, having the cylinder form with a length about a meter with a diameter of 40-50 cm is applied.
4. Beavers can be caught by means of networks 25-30 meters long and 4 m high with floats on the top cord and sinkers on lower.
5. Ashore find the nested camera and begin to knock over it a stick or legs. Beavers are frightened noise, leave a hole and get to a trap.
6. But in cases when beavers hide or are absent in a hole, the dogs who are specially accustomed to work with them can be useful. Such dog feels presence of a rodent through a half-meter soil layer. She is let out on the coast after installation of traps and by her behavior determined whether there is a beaver in a hole.