In article >,
Doug Freyburger > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> > "Storrmmee" > wrote:
> >
> >> nutrea sweet strikes again ...
> >
> > And remember please that it's nutra-sweet or aspartame.
> >
> > A Nutrea is an aquatic rodent. ;-) Related distantly to beavers.
>
> I wonder if nutrea is what I would call muskrat. I know there are some
> in my neighborhood because one got caught in my back yard fence a few
> years ago. We now have beavers as well. A few more trees came down
> in the park near the city hall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutria

"The coypu (from the Mapudungun, koypu)[2][3] or nutria (Myocastor
coypus), is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent and the only member
of the family Myocastoridae."

"Coypu can also be mistaken for another widely dispersed semi-aquatic
rodent that occupies the same wetland habitats, the muskrat."

ObFood: Meat from the Nutria is edible, but nobody wants to eat it.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA