Stumpy's Close Call May 2014 | Page 18

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." 18