I saw this Nutria on a log at Delta Ponds and was really impressed with its mustache. It is quite an attention-getter! LOL On the other hand, I wouldn't want mine to look like that! It was about the handsomest Nutria I have ever seen, even though the nutria is sometimes called the River Rat.

The spread of the nutria to natural areas around the country has result in a fight that science in some places is winning, according to this report in Science Daily: "A 10-pound rodent pest called nutria ravaging southern wetlands in the US, which has been especially damaging to the marshland ecology in the Mississippi Delta following Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, may have finally met its match thanks to molecular science." SEE -
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