Genus-level cladogram of the Myocastorini. The nutria somewhat resembles a very large rat, or a beaver with a small, long and skinny hairless tail. Adults are typically 4–9 kg (9–20 lb) in weight, and 40–60 cm (16–24 in) in body length, with a 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 in) tail.

Mar 31, 2019 · Gonzalez lives on a shrinking patch of marsh in the community of Delacroix Island, 30 miles southeast of New Orleans. By doing battle with the nutria, there is the sense that Gonzalez is fighting...

Apr 19, 2023 · Nutria, also known as coypu, are large rodents that live in areas with lots of freshwater. Despite sometimes being called swamp rats, nutria are not rats. These mammals are native to South...

In this video, we went nutria hunting in the Louisiana marsh. Nutria are an invasive species that are destructive to our wetlands. We had a great hunt and then we went to the camp to cook nutria...

Sep 12, 2018 · Rodents are known for being pests, but the nutria may be the worst of them. The orange-toothed, semi-aquatic rodents from South America, which can grow to be up to 20 pounds, have become invasive...

Nov 10, 2024 · Louisiana’s coastal marshes face an unprecedented threat from an unlikely source: the nutria, a semi-aquatic rodent native to South America. Characterized by webbed toes and distinctive orange buck teeth, these invasive rodents have proliferated in the state since their introduction in the 1930s.

Jan 27, 2025 · In this video, I traveled to the Louisiana Bayou to hunt invasive nutria rats with my buddy Jared of Outside The Levees on YouTube! ...more.

Nutria have a heavy, rat-like tail thinly covered in bristly hairs that trails smoothly behind when swimming. In northern climates, nutria often sufer frostbite to their tails and may retain only a stub tail following a cold winter.

Feb 9, 2022 · For two days in February, more than 200 eager competitors descended on the Mississippi River Delta to remove nearly 2,000 invasive nutria from the Louisiana marsh. From left: Maxwell, Heathcock, and Reno with a few of the many swamp rats they killed during the Nutria Rodeo. Dac Collins.

Marsh rat can refer to several not closely related types of semiaquatic rodents of superfamily Muroidea: Marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), a cricetid from southeastern North America.