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We were recently watching some beaver/otter like creatures swimming about in the river at the Chateau de Chenonceau.
Hubby though they might have been beavers - I thought they look more like giant rats!
Well I asked the girl in the gift shop what they were, her English was as good as my French - so she took me to the soft toys that were for sale and produced a stuffed 'ragodin'.
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I've seen (I think) a beaver on a lake in a french campsite. Had a big squarish head, size of a shoebox, almost.
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Could be a Coypu or possibly Muskrat as there are quite a lot of those in the rivers of France. Also a large brown creature that could, at a glance, be mistaken for an Otter. The latter is much sleeker and has a flatter head and thicker tail at the base where it attaches to the body. Your picture shows a creature with a rat-like tail.
However, there are European Beavers in the rivers of northern France. Having watched the muskrats from the bridge at Chinon over several evenings, we were rewarded with the sight of a pair of Beavers one night - around 11 pm. They played in a pool under the bridge for about 30 minutes before swimming off upriver. You can distinguish the Beaver quite easily if you get a decent view of its tail: it is noticeably flat and wide.
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