NUTRIA
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SCIENTIFIC NAME: Myocastor Coypus ...
Nutria
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(n´tr) or coypu(koi´p), aquatic rodent, Myocastor coypus, of South America, introduced in the S United States for its fur, which is similar to that of beaver but not as thick or durable.
Nutria
Myocastor coypus
The Nutria (Myocastor coypus) is native to South America but was introduced into the United States in the 1940s. It has become very common, in fact, quite a nuisance, in many areas, especially the southeastern U.S.
Nutria*
: Family Myocastoridae : Myocastor coypus (Molina)
Description.
Nutria or coypu A South American large aquatic rodent, introduced into the South United States. It has large reddish incisor teeth, partially webbed hind feet, and a longer, sparsely haired tail.
Nutria have orange front teeth! The two front teeth stick out of the mouth and help break apart plants.
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Species Details ...
Nutria are large, web-footed rodents that are more agile in the water than on land. They live in burrows, or nests, never far from the water. Nutria may inhabit a riverbank or lakeshore, or dwell in the midst of wetlands.
The Nutria (also called the coypu) is a large, semi-aquatic South American rodent that has webbed hind feet. It has been introduced to the USA, Asia, and Europe, as a result of fur farms (where the nutria is farmed for its luxurious coat).
Nutria
the Nutria, named also swamp-beavers, today world-wide as a fur-supplier in countless farms held, was given a home originally only in the restrained S...
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NUTRIA
Nutrias (also called coypus) are semi-aquatic rodents that are originally from South America.
OCELOT
Ocelots are wild cats from the Americas.
NuTRIA.-Size 20X12 in. Is a rodent known in natural history as the coypu, about half the size of a beaver, and when unhaired has not more than half, generally less, the depth of fur, which is also not so close.
Rabbits, muskrats, nutria, and other small animals" they tend to hunt alone or with their mate.
Life Span:
14 years in captivity.
They commonly use hollow trunks of large trees, beaver (Castor canadensis) or nutria (Myocastor coypus) dens, hollow logs, log jams, drift piles, jumbles of loose rocks, abandoned or unused boathouses, and duck blinds [4].
The nutria, a south American rodent, in Kansas. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 49:445-446. Howell, A. H. 1906. Revision of the skunks of the genus Spilogale. North American fauna, 26:1-55. Howell, A. H. 1914.
In 1979, Dam 1 was in serious disrepair due to age, the effects of tunneling by nutria (a large introduced rodent), and the expansion of root systems of trees.
Brack Egg, A. 1978. Situacion actual de las nutrias en el Peru. Otters: Proceedings of the first working meeting of the otter specialist group, 158: 76-84.
In south-east Texas, the Red Wolf primarily feeds on nutria, rabbits, Hispid Cotton Rats, Marsh Rice Rats and muskrats. The reintroduced Red Wolf population of north-eastern North Carolina feeds primarily on white-tailed deer, raccoons and rabbits.
The red wolf has been reported to eat animals up to the size of small deer, including pigs, nutria, raccoons, muskrats, other rodents and rabbits. It will also eat carrion.
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Diagnostic Characteristics: An inexperienced observer could mistake a muskrat (ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS), round-tailed muskrat (NEOFIBER ALLENI) or a nutria (MYOCASTOR COYPUS) for a beaver, but these other rodents do not have a broad flattened tail ...
Some wild relatives of the domestic guinea pig include: capybara, mara, rock cavy, paca, and nutria.
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A few of these distinctive South American rodents include mountain viscachas, rabbit-like forms that inhabit dry mountainous regions; Patagonian cavies, very rabbit-like, fast-running forms with elongated ears and short tails; the coypu or nutria, ...
nutria (Myocastor coypus)
pine vole (Microtus pinetorum carbonarius)
pine vole (Microtus pinetorum scalapsoides)
porcupine (Erithizon dorsatum dorsatum)
prairie deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii) ...
 See also: Chipmunk, Gopher, Armadillo, Manatee, Orca
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