[Sca-cooks] Description of the Beaver

[Terry Decker]

They are two genetically seperate species which cannot inter-breed (based on 
actual breeding tests).  Castor fiber is the European beaver (48 chromosomes).  
Castor canadensis is the North American beavcer (40 chromosomes).  That being 
said, they are equals in the cookpot.

Bear



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From: Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps <dephelps at embarqmail.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 12:30:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Description of the Beaver


Is the in period beaver of Europe and the British Isles the same as those found 
in North America?  I know that their squirrels and deer were different from 
those of the eastern seaboard  as were, I think, the wolves.

Daniel

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Gormanshaw" <kgormanshaw at gmail.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Description of the Beaver


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
> "I might here intreat largely of other vermin, as the polecat, the miniver,
> the weasel, stote, fulmart, squirrel, fitchew, and such like, which Cardan
> includeth under the word Mustela: also of the otter, and likewise of the
> beaver, whose hinder feet and tail only are supposed to be fish.

> from Modern History Sourcebook: William Harrison (1534-1593): Description
> Of England, 1577 (from Holinshed's Chronicles)

A strong example of the different world-view people had in the middle
ages.  It would never occur to me to think part of an animal could be
a fish.

Eyrny
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