Monday, July 13, 2009

Muskrat or Nutria?

Our next door neighbor has spotted a largish rodent around their decorative pond which has a small waterfall. The pond isn't all that big but it does have a few large goldfish. He claims the mammal he spotted was too large to be a rat and thought it might be a muskrat. But I think his pond is just too small to support an aquatic mammal.

I haven't seen it but I wondered if it might be a Nutria instead. Here's some links on both:

-Muskrat

-Beaver, Muskrat, and Nutria On Small Woodlands

-The Nutria Defense Page

-NUTRIA Myocastor coypus

-Attack of the Giant Nutria - a True Story

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