{"id":2473,"date":"2015-11-08T22:16:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T03:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2015-11-08T22:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T03:16:24","slug":"nutria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2015\/11\/08\/nutria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nutria or coypu is a large ratlike semi-aquatic rodent from South America. <!--more--> It is also known as the river rat, in some languages as the &#8216;beaver rat&#8217;. The coypu does resemble a <a href=\"\/2014\/07\/01\/north-american-beaver\/\" title=\"North American Beaver\">beaver<\/a> but with a rat tail.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2472\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nutria.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2472\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nutria.jpg\" alt=\"Nutria or coypu.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2472\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nutria.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nutria-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nutria-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nutria or coypu (<em>Myocastor coypus<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/hungary\/budapest\/budapest-zoo\/\" title=\"Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden\">Budapest Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nutrias are herbivorous. Nutria fur was considered valuable at one point and people have even farmed them for their fur in many parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Also nutria meat is edible thus farmed or hunted coypu can be used as food. While not everyone is enthusiastic about eating something that is basically a giant rat, apparently eating nutria meat is not uncommon even in North America.<\/p>\n<p>In several places farmed coypu were released into the wild and established themselves as a breeding feral population, quickly becoming pests.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coypu\" title=\"Coypu\" target=\"_blank\">Coypu<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkive.org\/coypu\/myocastor-coypus\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Coypu videos, photos and facts - Myocastor coypus | ARKive\">Coypu videos, photos and facts &#8211; <em>Myocastor coypus<\/em><\/a> on ARKive.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/nutria-coypu\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nutria, Coypu | Eat The Weeds and other things, too\">Nutria, Coypu<\/a> &#8212; eattheweeds.com.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simcoereformer.ca\/2010\/08\/10\/nutria-farming-had-short-lifespan\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nutria farming had short lifespan | Simcoe Reformer\">Nutria farming had short lifespan<\/a> &#8212; Simcoe Reformer.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nutria or coypu is a large ratlike semi-aquatic rodent from South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,9,40,62,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}