var arrayFacts = [
"Breath, Beaver, Breath!
A beaver can hold its breath for 45 minutes.",
"Peace and Quiet, Please!
Beaver dams help to raise water levels upstream and prevent flooding downstream. This is not why beavers build dams, though.
New studies show that beavers build dams for another reason--to have peace and quiet! Beaver dams silence the sound of rushing water by slowing it both upstream and downstream.
Beavers that live near calm streams and lakes are less likely to build dams since the rushing sound is not present in these areas.",
"Beaver Bricks and Mortar:
Beaver dams are made from anything the creatures can find, but mostly wood blocks, sticks, twigs, mud, stones, and plants.",
"Mixed Salad:
Beavers are primarily vegetarians, though they do occasionally eat dead fish. Beavers love lilies, ferns, vegetation, skunk cabbage roots, algae, and aquatic plants.
They will eat dead fish they find in the water or on the banks of the rivers and streams, but will never hunt for them.",
"Surf and Turf:
Beavers are the only amphibious rodents (rodents that live on land and in the water) native to North America, Europe, and Asia.",
"Rodents of the Rapids:
Beavers are the largest North American and Eurasian rodents and live in streams, rivers, marshes, ponds, and shorelines of large lakes.",
"A Family Affair:
Beavers have 3 to 5 kits (offspring) every May. Their gestation period is between three and four months (usually around 3 months and 15 days).
The kits will remain with their parents until they mature at 2 years of age, when they leave their colony to find their own habitats and mates.",
"River-Side Paradise:
Beavers live in colonies of at least six, including their mates and kits (babies).
Beavers live in lodges that are accessible through underwater tunnels, not in the dams they build. These elaborate homes are built out of mud and sticks along the banks of a river.",
"This Old Lodge:
Beaver dams are built in the spring and any repairs to new and old dams are done in the fall, when the creatures prepare for the long winter ahead.
Typically, just the mother, father, and kits live in one colony, though there may be numerous lodges located on one river edge.",
"Soul Mate:
Beavers find a mate when they are three years old and keep the same mate for the rest of their lives.",
"The Beavers are Back:
Beavers were nearly brought to extinction by hunters in 1900.
Fortunately, the species is recovering due to natural population growth or human re-introduction.",
"Finnish Beavers?
American beavers have also been introduced to Finland, and they are flourishing in their new home!",
"Chew Sticks:
The beaver is North America's largest rodent and has an average lifespan of 12 years.
Like all rodents, the beaver's front teeth never stop growing, so it has to gnaw on wood to ensure that they stay the right length. ",
"Orange Teeth?
A beaver's incisors are yellow-orange in color. This is because the teeth are made up of a hard colored part and a white softer part.
When beavers gnaw, chew, or eat, the white part wears down leaving only the colored part of their smooth buckteeth behind.",
"Unbeaverable:
The largest model of a beaver is over 3000 lbs. and is located at the front of a Beaver Lodge in Alberta, Canada.
The average beaver weighs between 45-60 lbs., though some beavers weigh nearly 110 pounds! Beavers can grow as big as 7 feet long but are usually just 41-46 inches in length.",
"Turning Tail:
The beaver's thick tail is usually 11-16 inches long and 5-6 inches wide.
They use their tails to propel themselves through the water and also to steer themselves in various directions. The beaver uses its tail like the rudder on a ship!",
"Tall Tail:
Beavers have trouble standing upright on land since they prefer the water.
Their tails can help them remain in a vertical position.",
"Alarm Call!
When threatened, a beaver will dive while forcefully slapping the water with its broad tail. This creates a loud 'slap,' which can be heard large distances above and below water.
This noise serves as a warning to other beavers in the area, and all nearby beavers will quickly dive under water to safety.",
"Friday's Fish:
The Roman Catholic Church once declared that the beaver was a fish, therefore, though people could not eat meat on Fridays during lent, they could eat beaver meat.",
];