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  • noun Plural form of coypu.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Five Daughters; Welcome to Lagos; Joanna Lumley's Nile 2010

  • 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.

    Paraná flooded savanna 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • Two species introduced from American are quite common: nutria (Myocastor coypus) and raccoon (Procyon lotor).

    Caspian lowland desert 2008

  • Introduced animal species including nutria (Myocastor coypus), stone moroko fish (Pseudorasbora parva), and wels catfish (Siluris glanis) are having negative impacts.

    Po Basin mixed forests 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Nutria Miyocastor coypus are large semi-aquatic rodents indigenous to South America.

    Rats! » Japundit Blog 2005

  • Food habits of Myocastor coypus (Molina) in Chile.

    Chapter 11 1991

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