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- noun Plural form of
coypu .
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Examples
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The grey-faced, pock-marked men with whom they shared their earnings looked like some monstrous breed of East Anglian rodent? sort of human coypus? that had crawled out from the Suffolk sewerage system.
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We also find species for consumption and processing such as the sábalo (P. platensis), pearly clams for dressmaking materials and personal adornment, processing of skins, and to a lesser extent meat from Myocastur coypus, L. longicaudis and Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris and processing of hides from Caiman sp. and Tupinambis teguixin.
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As well as the yaks and the sea otters below there were okapi, porcupines, takins and a whole mess of coypus. clicking the photos will take you to the rest of the Antwerp Zoo photos.
Boulders - or maybe tapirs! MadeleineS 2007
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As well as the yaks and the sea otters below there were okapi, porcupines, takins and a whole mess of coypus. clicking the photos will take you to the rest of the Antwerp Zoo photos.
Archive 2007-06-01 MadeleineS 2007
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Two species introduced from American are quite common: nutria (Myocastor coypus) and raccoon (Procyon lotor).
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Introduced animal species including nutria (Myocastor coypus), stone moroko fish (Pseudorasbora parva), and wels catfish (Siluris glanis) are having negative impacts.
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Other mammals in the area are the vizcachas (Lagostomus maximus), the cuis pampeano (Cavia aperea), the nutria (Myocastur coypus), and the opossum (Didelphis albiventris).
Semi-arid Pampas 2008
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Other mammals in the area are the vizcachas (Lagostomus maximus), the cuis pampeano (Cavia aperea), the nutria (Myocastur coypus), and the opossum (Didelphis albiventris).
Humid Pampas 2007
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Nutria Miyocastor coypus are large semi-aquatic rodents indigenous to South America.
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Food habits of Myocastor coypus (Molina) in Chile.
Chapter 11 1991
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