Engineers of the forest
I was born in a country where beavers are not a native animal and aren’t given a lot of airtime at school, at home, or in the media. If I remember correctly, my first introduction to anything remotely similar to beavers was through watching The Princess Bride as a child. While making their way through the Fire Swamp, Westley and Princess Buttercup encounter a terrifying R.O.U.S (Rodent of Unusual Size), engage in combat with said R.O.U.S, and eventually defeat him by rolling him onto nearby flames. At the time, this sinister looking creature was described to me as a fictitious mix of a large rat and a beaver, and thus, my (erroneous) perception of the beaver was formed.