Secret Life of Beavers for Nature Lovers

You have stood on a footbridge, seen a heap of sticks across the stream, and wondered who built it and why. You love nature listening that lets you sink into a hidden world, and you want one animal to fall in love with.

This audiobook follows a single beaver from a blind kit in the lodge to the elder of a busy colony. In nine chapters of about twenty minutes each, you watch a family teach its young to fell a tree, hear how the sound of running water tells a beaver exactly where the dam needs patching, and learn why one modest pond slows a flood, holds water through a dry summer and turns a bare ditch into a wetland full of frogs, herons and trout. Every chapter closes with what the science actually shows and one thing you can notice on your next riverside walk.

By the last chapter, a gnawed stump or a quiet pool will read like a page of a story you already know. Press play, and let the pond come alive.