Hunters and trappers in the N.W.T. are able to make more money harvesting beavers, after the territorial government added beaver castors to the list of things it'll pay advances for. Male and female ...

Castoreum, a substance from sacs near a beaver’s anus, has been used in human products for more than 2,000 years. Some wonder if it's still an ingredient on today's grocery shelves.

Next time you pick up a vanilla candy, think twice. A chemical compound used in vanilla flavored foods and scents comes from the butt of a beaver. Castoreum comes from a beaver's castor sacs ...

Artificial vanilla flavoring comes from compounds in clove oil, wood, and bark, and not from castoreum, which is extracted from beaver castor sacs.

The 88 proof bourbon has been infused with the oil that comes from beaver castor sacs, which are located right below the beaver tail. It is, essentially, beaver musk and what the animal uses to ...

In perfume-making, the term castoreum is more liberally applied to denote the resinoid extract resulting from the dried and alcohol tinctured beaver castor.

Beaver will excrete castoreum in combination with mud, sticks or grass to mark their territory along the water’s edge. The mound they make and deposit their scent on is called a castor mound.

Beavers secrete a special goo that smells like “musky vanilla”. It’s called castoreum. It’s a chemical compound found in the beaver’s ‘castor sacs’ and lo… ...

While elusive, the beaver, aptly nicknamed Castor — the North American beaver's scientific name is Castor canadensis — leaves a pretty clear trail of pointed, jagged little sticks behind him.

Tamworth Distilling in New Hampshire has some people going "ewww" over its latest creation — a bourbon made with beaver secretions. Eau de Musc is made with castoreum, the stuff that beavers use ...

Beavers emit the chemical compound castoreum from their castor sacs. The sacs are located under the animal's tail and are secreted when they seek to communicate or mark their territory.

A new whisky being served up in New Hampshire is called Eau de Musc — and it's flavoured using the scent glands from a beaver's anal region.