Wild Kratts
Beavers Have Refrigerators?
Clip: Season 3 | 1m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Beavers store food from the summertime in cold water and take it out to eat in the winter.
Beavers are vegetarians, which makes finding food in the winter a challenge. During the summer, they collect extra leaves and branches and store them in cold water. When winter comes, they collect the food from their "natural" refrigerators!
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Wild Kratts
Beavers Have Refrigerators?
Clip: Season 3 | 1m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Beavers are vegetarians, which makes finding food in the winter a challenge. During the summer, they collect extra leaves and branches and store them in cold water. When winter comes, they collect the food from their "natural" refrigerators!
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MARTIN: What’s our status, Koki?
Less than a minute of air left!
Uh-oh!
Maybe this beaver can hold his breath for longer than we thought!
Um, Chris, Martin, what’s that dark tunnel?
CHRIS: I don’t know, but he’s heading up!
Prepare to surface.
(All sighing) Where are we?
Inside the beaver’s lodge.
KIDS: Whoa!
KATIE: There’s a whole beaver family in here!
BOTH: Hey, we know these beavers!
It’s Timber.
And Sticker.
And Buddy.
And Twig.
These are the same beavers from the summer!
You’re right Gavin, they are.
GAVIN: When it was warm, and everything was green, and they were eating the leaves and twigs.
KOKI: But now it’s cold, and everything’s snow covered, and no leaves are growing.
So, what do these vegetarians eat in the winter?
Well, whatever they have in the fridge, of course.
Fridge.
(Laughing) Funny.
Fridge... No, I’m serious.
Beavers have a fridge.
Of course, that’s right, a natural fridge.
Beavers collect branches with leaves and twigs in the summer and they store them in the cool water right at the entrance to the lodge.
The chilly water keeps the sticks fresh all winter, and... it’s all right there whenever a beaver wants a snack.
A natural refrigerator.
That means the hard working beaver has collected and refrigerated all the food the whole family needs for the entire winter!
Can we just hang out with them and warm up for a little?
(Sighing)
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