The Genus Pinus .

North American beaver The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) , also called the Canadian beaver (which is also the name of a subspecies), American beaver, or simply beaver in North America, is native to Canada, much of the United States and parts of northern Mexico.

The phyllaries (a bract under the flowerhead) has long spreading hairs.

The West Indian sandflies of the genus Culicoides (Diptera Ceratopogonidae).

Photographer Caio Castor is detained by the police.

As a national symbol, the beaver was chosen to be the mascot of the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal with the name Amik ( beaver in Ojibwe).

Physical characteristics Castor was discovered to be a visual binary in 1678, with the magnitude of its components being 2.0 and 2.9 (the combined magnitude is 1.58).

Forms of Apomixis in the genus Allium L. In S.S. Khokhlov (Ed.

A beaver may get crushed by a falling tree.

I realized that my real competition was the beaver.

On a new genus of basal Neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China .

Residents of Favela do Moinho demonstrating their solidarity. Photo by Caio Castor. Used with permission.

A well known example of such a function is the Busy Beaver function.

Leda and the swan and Leda and the egg were popular subjects in ancient art.

Yupik medicine used dried beaver testicles like willow bark to relieve pain.

In Pindar, Pollux is the son of Zeus while Castor is the son of the mortal Tyndareus.

García Márquez, M. López Jurado, L.F. (2000) Endemism, gigantism and extinction in island lizards the genus Gallotia on the Canary Islands.

Next to humans, no other extant animal appears to do more to shape its landscape.

Castor de Andrade, a banker of Jogo do Bicho (illicit game in Brazil) financially supported the club for several years.

Castor can thus be considered to be a sextuple star system, with six individual stars gravitationally bound together.

Sharrock, Suzanne (2001) Diversity in the genus Musa , focus on Australimusa .

Here is the beaver. And here is the stream, and the aspen and the alder and the willow.

As if these were the maps that we would need to predict where you would find the beaver.

Activist Igor Carvalho denounced Castor's arrest the photojournalist was later released by police

The name Castor refers specifically to Castor, one of the twin sons of Zeus and Leda.

Therefore, the general prohibition on the consumption of meat on Fridays did not apply to beaver meat.

The Temple of Castor and Pollux on the forum was linked directly to the imperial residence on the Palatine and dedicated to Caligula.

Livilla had allegedly poisoned her husband, Tiberius' son, Drusus Julius Caesar (nicknamed Castor ) to remove him as a rival.

Each of the components of Castor is itself a spectroscopic binary, making Castor a quadruple star system.

Território Livre posted the moment of Castor's arrest. The footage shows him on the ground, surrounded by police. One of the officers has his arms locked around Castor's neck, restraining him

References Hansen, Hans V. A taxonomic revision of the genus Gerbera (Compositae, Mutisieae) sections Gerbera , Parva , Piloselloides (in Africa), and Lasiopus (Opera botanica.

Castor (α Gem, α Geminorum, Alpha Geminorum) is the second brightest star in the constellation Gemini and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

The cartoon also features a new character, Kitty, a female pet purple beaver who appears to be smarter than both men.

History of the concept The order as a distinct rank of biological classification having its own distinctive name (and not just called a higher genus (genus summum)) was first introduced by the German botanist Augustus Quirinus Rivinus in his classification of plants that appeared in a series of treatises in the 1690s.

In Greek mythology, Tyndareus ( ) was a Spartan king, son of Oebalus (or Perieres) and Gorgophone (or Bateia), husband of Leda (), father of Castor, Clytemnestra, Timandra, Princess Phoebe and Philonoe, and stepfather of Helen of Troy and Pollux.

In the next year, Palma recorded his 5th album, Asas e Penas, where he included a song dedicated to Vicente, named Castor (Beaver).

The beaver works as a keystone species in an ecosystem by creating wetlands that are used by many other species.

The beaver is also the symbol of many units and organizations within the Canadian Forces, such as on the cap badges of the Royal 22e Régiment and the Canadian Military Engineers.

Other prominent symbols include the beaver, Canada Goose, Common Loon, the Crown, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and more recently, the totem pole and Inuksuk.

In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy (Greek Helénē , ), also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was a sister of Castor, Pollux, and Clytemnestra.

But a beaver also needs things. And that having it on either side means that we can link it together, that we can create the network of the habitat relationships for these species.

As a national emblem The importance of the beaver in the development of Canada through the fur trade led to its official designation as the national animal in 1975.

Their mother was Leda, but Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan.

Allusions and references The association of Cor with horses, and his twin brother Corin with boxing, recalls the traditional associations of the Spartan twins Castor and Pollux of Greek mythology.

Its low reliefs depict and label by name several Roman deities such as Jupiter, Vulcan, and Castor and Pollux, along with Gallic deities such as Esus, Smertrios, and Tarvos Trigaranus.