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Originally Posted by Salavee
Interesting . I'm wondering if there was'nt some kind of deformaty in the jaw somewhere.
As a Beavers teeth grow very fast and never stop growing, they also wear very fast. It sounds like one side of the jaw was misaligned and that tooth failed to to make contact when it was knawing. It would only take a short time for that tooth to grow to the point it was useless for knawing and kept growing from there. I've heard of them growing into thier skull.
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To me it looked like a piece of wood had become lodged between the lower teeth forcing them apart in such a way as to cause one to miss it's opposing tooth entirely and the other only half engage the opposing tooth.
The beaver was an older individual, as I recall, don't quote me on this, the hide measured 66 inches.
But when I caught it mid winter, when it should have been happy and healthy it was a bag of bones.
It was by far the hardest hide to flesh I have ever encountered.
There was no indication of disease or other injuries.