THE COYPU

The Coypu

By Roger pradas ferrer

start

Index

tHE SPECIE PLUS PHOTOS

sECTION 1

A DESCRIPTION

SECTION 2

wHERE DOSE IT COME FROM?

SECTION 3

SECTION 4

hOW WAS THE SPECIE INTRODUCED?

WHAT LOCATION IT HAS INVIDED?

SECTION 5

hOW TO GET RID OF IT?

SECTION 6

THE SPECIE + PHOTOS

wHAT TIPE OF SPECIE IT IS?

• The Coypu, also colled wrongly nutria, and Myocastor coypus for the scientiphic name, it's a type of rodent, classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoriade, the Coypu is now included within Echimyidae, the family of the spiny rats.

A DESCRIPTION OF IT

Caracteristics

Description of it

• The Coypu is a large, robust rodent with a large head, small ears, and a scaly, sparsely-haired, round tail. The fur color is brown above and lighter below. Muzzle color is white and the large incisors are dark, and of course the coypu is a mammal

• Length: the Coypu it's about 1m length when they are adults
• Weight: the Coypu, when he's adult, it weights aproximatly 6.4 kilograms.
• Special features: the Coypu is like a large and robust rat. The fur on the upperparts contains many long, coarse hairs that are mainly yellowish-brown or reddish-brown. He's fur is water-repelent.

WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

• The Coypu is originated from wetlands in southern South America, West of the Andes.

How was the species introduced?

Coypus were introduced to the Louisiana ecosystem in the 1930s, when they escaped from fur farms that had imported them from South America. Beetwen the 19th and 20th centuries, there were farms of Coypus in Asia, Europe and America.

WHAT LOCATION IT HAS INVIDED?

In Catalonia, some exemplars of the Coypu were seen in the Vall d'Aran and Cerdanya, but it was from 2012 that there is evidence of populations established in rivers of the Alt Empordà and in areas such as the Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls.

HOW TO GET RID OF IT?

You have two ways to get rid of them:

· Load traps with potatoes or carrots and place where coypus or signs of coypus are visible. And then sacrificing them. It is the cruelest way. ·Trapping them and releasing somewhere that is safe for them and for us. I think that is the best way to get rid of them.

Thanks!