Beavers live an average of ten to 12 years in the wild. They generally mate for life and live in family units that consist of an adult male and female and three to four kits. Once they are old enough to leave the nest, kits spend most of their time playing in the water around the lodge, but are buoyant and cannot dive. Young beavers usually stay with their parents—helping out with the family business of maintaining the lodge and dam—until they reach sexual maturity at about two years of age. Then, chased away from their natal territory by their parents, they go stake their own claim, often downstream.
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