text: what is the strangest animal behavior you have observed on a camping trip?   while paddling across a lake in manitoba, canada with my some, a beaver jumped in the lake from the shore, swam out to the canoe, grabbed the side of it, and looked inside-exactly like he (or she) was looking for something.  never even looked at us, just around the floor of the canoe-and then let go, and swam back to shore.