Government bureaucracies are stereotypically wasteful of both time and money. The Dodo reports that a community of beavers in the Czech Republic apparently became frustrated with governmental delays in the construction of a dam the Brdy wetland region and built one themselves.
The government had planned for seven years to build the dam which advocates hope would restore the damaged wetland. But after seven years and the equivalent of $1.2 million spent, there was still no dam. Then officials found that, in just mere days, local beavers had erected dams in the spots tentatively selected by the humans.
-via Oddity Central | Photo: Klaudiusz Muchowski