"If you only take one thing away from this talk, make it this: beavers are idiots. They have no idea why they’re building these huge structures; they just blindly do it."
I can understand the author's use of the Beaver analogy but it may not be the right analogy.
Beavers build these dams to keep the water level at a certain height. This not only offers protection from predators but also makes it easy to access food.
I can understand the author's use of the Beaver analogy but it may not be the right analogy.
Beavers build these dams to keep the water level at a certain height. This not only offers protection from predators but also makes it easy to access food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver#Dams
They may have poor eyesight but they have a keen sense of hearing.
May be he meant that the Beaver does not know why its teeth grow continuously but it uses it to cut down trees and make dams.