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A beaver eats food while leaning against a tree stump in a zoo habitat. A rolled up piece of paper lies on the stump and a person crouches next to the beaver, only their knee and hands are in frame.

Oregon Zoo beaver ‘Stumptown Fil’ predicts early spring

Across the country, Feb. 2 is known as Groundhog Day, when the namesake critter forecasts whether Americans will see six more weeks of winter or an early spring. But because groundhogs don’t live in Oregon, the Oregon Zoo enlists the state animal to do the forecasting — a beaver named Filbert.







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