The nutria, or more correctly, "coypu", is a large rodent of Central and South America, that resembles a really large muskrat. Introduced into many U.S areas, where they are labeled a pest.
Nutria are large rat-like rodents that live in burrows along rivers and ponds. They are usually raised for their fur, but I am not aware of anyone using them for food.
Nutria, but the french call the nutria meat ragondin.
A nutria is actually an animal. A nutria is actually an animal.
Nutria are semi aquatic while groundhogs are terrestrial. Physically, nutria have webbed rear feet and a mostly hairless, long rounded tail while a groundhog has a furry tail and his feet are not webbed. Nutria also have more prominent whiskers than a groundhog and a whitish chin. if you can get a look at the animal's incisors, orange to reddish incisors are characteristic for nutria. Nutria can be distinguished from muskrats by their size (nutria are larger) and their tails. The hairless tail of a muskrat is laterally compressed (thinner from side-to-side than it is top dorsal to ventral) while the tail of the nutria is fully round.
Nutria do not hibernate
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Gee...fifteen-pound rats? There are poisons that will kill them, but they kill desirable species too. Alligators like eating nutria but Louisiana is thick with both nutria and alligators. Mountain lions will also eat nutria, but they like eating people's dogs better. AND you have to import mountain lions.
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nutria i think are large rats/rodents i think
nutria or nutria de mar
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Nutria can be found in the State of Oregon.