To supplement their diets, the beavers at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. get crunchy vegetables like carrots and corn.
I had the chance to watch them eat this past weekend and took some fun photos of one of the beavers munching away on part of an ear of corn. This beaver, a female named Willow, was able to manipulate the corn really easily with her front paws and seemed to enjoy each bite as she slowly consumed the entire piece of corn.
I watched some videos on photographing animals at a zoo before this shoot and followed some of the tips, like shooting close-ups and paying attention to backgrounds. I did not, however, switch to shutter-priority mode, as suggested, but kept the camera in aperture-priority mode. I may have lost a few shots, because the shutter speed was too slow, but I was able to get decent results by using a more familiar approach.
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i never would have guessed that beavers liked corn!
I talked with the folks at the zoo that were feeding the beavers and the beavers seem to love it. The zoo folks would hand will the vegetables one at a time and Willow would take her time eating them. The male beavers were much less interested in eating–maybe they don’t like vegetables as much.