Beatrix Canal Beatrix Canal The Beatrix Canal (Dutch: "Beatrixkanaal") is an 8.4 km long canal in the southern Netherlands. It was constructed to provide the city of Eindhoven with access to the Wilhelmina Canal. In order to be able to regulate the level of the Gender and Dommel streams, which regularly threatened to flood Eindhoven's inner city, an additional Discharge Canal ("Afwateringskanaal"), which is not open to navigation, was dug to connect the Beatrix Canal and the Dommel stream. Into this branch, the Gender now discharges. Upon completion, the canal was named in honour of the newborn eldest daughter of the heiress
Kretzoiarctos beatrix Kretzoiarctos beatrix Kretzoiarctos beatrix is an extinct bear from the European Miocene and an ancestor of the extant giant panda. "Kretzoiarctos beatrix" is the ancestral group of the Ailuropodinae subfamily according to fossil records from the middle Miocene of Spain. Based on teeth structure, researchers have speculated that this species may have been a small herbivorous animal that ate very hard plants. The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca") has a special craniodental structure that serves as a durophagous feeding adaptation for bamboo, and a similar tooth structure was also found in "K. beatrix"., indicating that this species may be the oldest