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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Green, On the natural history and hunting of the beaver, etc. CUL-DAR83.95. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 239, n1: "On beavers, Mr. A. H. Green, in 'Journal of Lin. Soc. Zoolog.' vol. x. 1869, p. 362."

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I observed the same fact with the herds of the Guanacoes in Patagonia; & on one occasion several were so absorbed in fighting that they rushed without attending close by me.

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The Journal of the Linn. Soc. Vol 5 – 1869 p 362

The Beaver

"Males fight during the rutting season most fiercely."

"Hardly a skin is without scars."

[Ashdown, H. Green. On the natural history and hunting of the beaver (Castor canandensis, Kuhl) on the Pacific slope of the Rocky Mountains. Journal of the Linnean Society 10 (Read November 5, 1868): 361-365.]

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