Cheat on your diet with beaver testicles!!!

Cheat on your diet with beaver testicles!!!!

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In medieval times, beavers were classified as a breed of fish.

As a result, consumption of beaver did not count as “eating meat” during a religious fast.

Moreover, their furry private bits were very valuable in medicine recipes, a belief that gave birth to the myth that a beaver would bite its own testicles off, and throw it at human hunters to escape with its own life.......

Lets set the scene....

With your trusty hounds at your side, you spy a lumbering beaver.

You close in.

You raise your spear.

The beaver suddenly stops, looks over its shoulder at you, and lifts a back leg.

It bears its teeth, stares you right in the eye, and proceeds to chew off its own testicles.

Then it throws them at you.

Perhaps a bit taken aback by this gesture, you let it scurry away without its gonads.

A medieval hunter like you, is only after the precious oil known as castoreum, those testicles bear.

The beaver has quite cleverly, just saved its own life.

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A medieval depiction of a beaver hunt/testicle collection, with the beaver chewing off his own love spuds! ~The British Library