Stumpy started to cry. "This is a very sad
story, Buck! [Sniff, sniff]. How did the beavers
survive at all?"
"Don't worry, Stumpy—there is some good in
spite of the bad. We beavers are proud! We are
resilient! We are—Castor canadensis!”
“Castro what?” asked Stumpy.
“Castor canadensis! It’s our Latin scientific
name—you know, our genus and species?”
Stumpy gave Buck a blank stare.
“Oh don’t worry about it,” Buck retorted.
“You’ll learn about it in school soon enough.
But we beavers did survive, and there is hope in
the rest of this story."
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