The bank species was thought to resemble the muskrat in behavior, living in burrows or lodges and unable to build dams.

这种生活在岸边的物种被认为在行为上与麝鼠相似，生活在洞穴或小屋中，因此不能建造水坝。

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These beavers do know how to build dams, and do so if the need arises, as may occur if they are forced to relocate after felling and consuming all nearby trees.

这些海狸知道如何建造水坝，而且在有需要的时候就会这么做，比如当它们在砍伐和消耗了附近所有的树木后被迫迁移的时候。

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Beavers build dams along the river.

河狸沿河筑坝。

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borrows its nickname from the large, flat-tailed rodent that uses trees to build dams.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia,Laos and Thailand to build hydropower dams on the Mekong would block fish migration, threatening already endangered species.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

South Korea says it is accelerating a project to build its own dams near the North Korean border to prevent surprise floods like this in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

It is one thing to build dams and Olympic venues to proper standards, but with so many other buildings collapsing particular scrutiny may fall on China's system for setting and enforcing construction codes in earthquake-prone zones such as Sichuan.

ECONOMIST: China

With others, he killed proposals to build giant dams on the Salween river and in one of the most spectacular gorges of the Yangzi.

ECONOMIST: Liang Congjie

However, to build the dams often cause irreversible environmental damage despite the fact that the mills do not emit harmful CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

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