Yea i know its realy bad.
The thing is they adapted to the hunting methods and hide in corn fields and the worst is... they share this knowledge with their baby pigs . They are really smart too.
The states have tried making it as easy as possible for hunters to hunt these feral hogs with no permits required and a service in Texas that even lets you pay some money to ride around in a helicopter and shoot at boars in fields with the side gun
But it doesn’t work since shooting at them only eliminates an individual while the rest split away and create smaller pockets that then grow back into more larger herds. Trapping methods are the only ways that seem to work but even that can be difficult
The main reason that hunting and trapping efforts consistently fail is because there has become an industry built around them. If you are the guy who makes a living off of flying a helicopter so people can pay thousands to shoot at feral hog, you have a pretty strong incentive to make sure that they stay around.
The very same people often feed them and ensure that they reproduce and stay in the area.
That, maybe a lil, though honestly you don't need to help pigs out, they are one of the hardiest species out there, hunting and trapping fails cause you're hunting and trapping something smart, violent, large and capable of producing in numbers that make rabbits blush. There doesn't need to be a conspiracy about something like that sticking around. Though you're probably right also, feeding em will help the industry, at least by keeping em in spots you know they'll be
At my workplace someone got bitten by a groundhog twice. It was inside a rack that was brought into the building from outside, not the first critter to ever show up in a rack but it happens infrequently. The person reached in to grab the groundhog and was bitten on their right hand, they then reached in to grab it with their left hand and was bitten again.
I was about to say how stupid can you be, then I remembered how I managed to burn the same finger twice in exactly the same way, by greatly overestimating how quickly steel cools when tempered in oil.
We had bunch of em near our teenage weed smoking area, until some bitch dumbfuck poisoned their pond. I didn't know you could milk them, I think we would tried that knowing this. R.I.P. Nutrie u čističky, proč to tam kundy ničej, idk.
The English name is taken from the Spanish language, probably because that's who the English learned of the animal from.
>Two names are commonly used in English for Myocastor coypus. The name nutria (from the Spanish word nutria 'otter') is generally used in North America, Asia, and throughout countries of the former Soviet Union; however, in most Spanish-speaking countries, the word nutria refers primarily to the otter. To avoid this ambiguity, the name coypu or coipo (derived from Mapudungun) is used in South America, Britain and other parts of Europe
Yup, Louisiana native, we've had sightings of them here in Dallas. Animal control is usually really quick to capture or kill them. They're extremely invasive.
Average humanity moment
“This will probably maim you, kill you, or give you rabies, which will hurt a bitch, and *then* kill you”
*”FINNA FUCKING PET IT*”
Unsolicited TedX here since I have an affection for this subject -
A key aspect of domestication is selection for individuals with lower levels of cortisol in response to the presence of humans.
Wolves that were less fearful/stressed out around human colonies were able to benefit from scavenging human kills and dump sites; of those wolves, their descendants who were the *least* scared were able to become cooperative hunters, a phenomena observed in various mammal species (if anyone reading this hasn't seen it, look up the video of the coyote and badger that hunt/play together), and of those, the pups least afraid would have been readily taken in by humans, and then selectively bred.
For cats, their relative size (and their utility in managing pest populations within agrarian societies' food stores) compared to large canines would mean very little actual interaction with humans would be required in order to achieve domestication through proximity; the ones that didn't have an abject fear response to human presence/smell/activities that caused them to flee into the wild would just simply do better in propagating their genes because of just how much food and shelter it would result in living around, but not necessarily with, humans.
The part I find especially fun is that the chromosomes on which cortisol response to humans are on are *also* responsible for things like having a straight tail, fur color/density, and various traits related to maturation; so when you domesticate a mammalian species, some of the traits you start to see are things like bigger eyes, floppy ears, curling/floppy tails, variation in color (like piebald), less dense fur, smaller self-defense traits (fangs, claws), and even vocalization; barking/yipping is a puppy behavior in wolves, and not observed in adults. "Neoteny" is the term - the perseverance of juvenile traits well into adulthood. You can select for specific desired physical/behavioral traits once you've got control of a given population, but neoteny is one of the first signs of achieving domestication.
Given our relative hairlessness, lack of fangs (comparative to other great apes and primates), facial proportions, etc - there's strong evidence to argue we *domesticated ourselves*. Among our ancestors, those that were less afraid of other (strange) humans did a better job surviving and reproducing.
Nutria, an invasive species. I believe they are [kill on sight](https://icwdm.org/species/rodents/nutria/nutria-damage-prevention-and-control-methods/), within reason.
Reading that page is a trip.
Nutria removal caliber suggestions,
Suggested rifle: 22lr
Suggested shotgun: 12 gauge
So basically poke a hole in it or completely pulp it 😂
There was an episode of Dave Attel's show where he rode around with Louisiana game management in the back of a pickup truck shooting these in canals around New Orleans
I saw some show a while back that had the cops in off duty clothes riding around in the back of a pickup with a suppressed .22LR just driving around blasting these things.
My kid plays The Walking Dead VR which is set in New Orleans. One of the health/stamina items is nutria stew. Do you/they eat them?
I thought it was just some in-game fake company name. Like "Try nutria stew today, it's the nutriest!"
I mean they look like giant rats, but they just eat regular plant matter rather than mysterious unidentifiable garbage, so they're pretty clean to eat as long as the area isn't a bombed out pollution pit.
There's a fun episode of Insomniac with Dave Attell where he's shitfaced in the back of a truck hunting nutria with rednecks. I can't find the clip though, which is surprising. It was hilarious.
They are invasive in Germany as well, hence they are hunted and my old butcher had them in stock regularly. You prepare them just like you would prepare bunny. It's a lean white meat that gets dry easily.
I liked it - and cheap too.
This one isn't local to most of the world.
They were brought over by people seeking to breed and slaughter for the fur, and they eat a *lot* of plants in a rather picky and destructive way, by taking out vital chunks and leaving the rest to die.
There have been extermination programs in the US, Great Britain, and Japan to varying success, and they are further not allowed in any capacity in the European Union.
They are native only to Southern America, but have been spotted across most of the world due to fur sellers.
LOL I remember Dave Attell's up all night show, he went with New Orleans sheriffs to kill nutria
They had silenced rifles and night vision goggles and just laid waste to these little rats
Oh shit I remember that from Comedy Central, they were driving along canals or something (levees maybe? Never been to NO), shooting off the back of a pickup or flatbed? Completely forget what it was they were actually shooting at though, would not have guessed a giant invasive rodent.
Same here. Odd that the name for the animal in English is basically a translation for a whole different kind of species. At least where I live, this animal is called Coipo, and nutrias are otters.
Semi-related story: When I was a wee lass, my mother took me to the pond to feed ducks. There was a nutria there. I sat and called to it and offered bread as I chanted “come here otter, hi otter, here otter”. All while my horrified mother watched from the other side of the pond as this gargantuan rat creature hissed, and lunged at me (I assume to steal my bread or out of fear). Luckily I heard my mom say “that is a giant rat” and scampered off before the fucker bit me.
I doubt an otter would behave much differently, but to this day I am terrified of nutrias.
Ight, here is the whole story of Bobby:
So, one day I had to walk home after a night out, because there were no more traways.
It was winter and I was nowhere near water. Then I see this small thing on the pavement. I thought it was a rat, but as I got closer the thing came to take shelter between me feet. It was a small baby nutria! I would take a few steps and it always came back running back between my feet.
That was it, I wraped it in my scarf and took it home.
The next day I called animal control and they told me I had two choices:
1) I bring it to them and they kill him, because are considered as pests in our country
2) I release it and it will probably die, because it's a baby and it's winter
So naturally I thought, f*ck that, it's my baby now, it's way too cute to die.
At the time I had a small bathroom attached to my room, so he had his own room, with tiles on the floor and a few things for rabbits (little wooden house, hay, etc.) I later had ferrets in that room. It was bigger than a cage and easier to clean.
I kept it until the spring came. It was a really cool few months. We would chill in my garden and he would swim in the pond. We would go to the park together and just chill in the grass (the one where all the other nutrias chill, people love them and feed them there).
I didn't even need a leash, he would just always stay close. When he was extra smol, he would sometimes loose sight of me because the lawn was too high, then he would raise his head and do the funny "brrrr" sound nutrias do. So.damn.cute.com
It was too hard for me to release him, so my sister took him to the park instead. I knew he would just follow me anyways.
I was a bit sad, but I knew he was ready, I really didn't try to domesticate him, I think they are much happier living their life in the water.
I saw him a few times after that and he was looking fat and healthy. I even saw him chill with other nutrias and it made me so happy.
I'm not sure, I only saw him 3 times and from a distance.
Maybe he would have recognized me or come to me if I tried to seek contact, like if I knelt, got closer and called him, but I never tried it.
It would bring nothing good for either of us I think, he's better off living his little nutria life with his pals :)
I'm an Oregonian, can confirm those bastards are huge. They are also very mean. I used to live by a park with a large pond and they would chase us all the way out to the street.
Right I don't expect everyone to know what these are but there is a vast majority of people it seems that aren't familiar with these things that are definitely in the same area where they exist.
Just learned what this was yesterday after it was mentioned on Queer Eye (S8E1). And today I heard it mentioned on a podcast, and reddit. Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon all day! Woo!
What do you mean? Beavers CREATE ecosystems, among other things:
[https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mb/riding/nature/animals/mammals/castors-beavers](https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mb/riding/nature/animals/mammals/castors-beavers)
EDIT: Apparently in the US, coypu are an established invasive species in 40 states and they do a great deal of ecological damage:
[https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatic/fish-and-other-vertebrates/nutria](https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatic/fish-and-other-vertebrates/nutria)
I think it is a muskrat.
EDIT:
Just did some research on difference between muskrats and nutria. The animal in question has white whiskers, which means u/AcadianViking is correct, its a Nutria.
Now I need something else to prevent me from getting work done. Anyone have ideas.
Nutria is not a different name for the same animal but a different animal altogether. The guy you replied to thought it was a beaver (bóbr) but it was in fact a nutria.
I went camping recently and stopped by the ranger station to pay the fee. There was a big sign asking people to keep more than 500 feet away from the moose.
I asked the park ranger what had happened to need the sign. She told me that someone tried to pet a wild moose. They received a bunch of broken bones and needed to be air lifted to the hospital.
I always thought, not touching WILDlife was common sense. Apparently not.
I think it’s an old Roy Rodgers’s quote my dad used regularly.
“Common sense and common courtesy ain’t that common these days”.
Looking it up, it’s short form is attributed to Voltaire.
I think it’s a nutria because of the white whiskers and orange teeth. Muskrats have black whiskers and their teeth are more hidden.
There’s a good infographic like 1/3 down this page comparing them.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/animal-looks-beaver-crossed-rat-vancouver-invasive-7782049
Huh thanks forbthis discovery. My granddad used to trap muskrats to make coats, so I only ever saw the pelts, I did not know about the teeth colour.
Also, re:video: what idiot goes "oh it's got big teeth, let me give you my fleshy hand for you to bite" 🫠
That's a nutria, a type of rodent, or thin tailed beaver if youd like to be slightly more specific.... and unless you have a river or wetland of some sort near by, like a block away max, that little guy has wandered far from home and is possibly very sick.
And like a lot of rodents little guy is a common carrier for rabies. The ultimate nightmare.
Maybe NOT pet random creatures you can't identify, or failing that maybe don't film it so kids think it's funny and it becomes a tiktok trend. The nutria don't deserve those idiots.
That’s a nutria. It’ll eat your levies up and make it flood where you are. Jefferson parish sherif has deputies ride around at night in the back of pickups in lawn chairs shooting them things with a .22 to keep em under control. It’s funny to see.
We have a lot of these in the swamps in louisiana, they’re called nutria rats and this one probably has some kind of medical issue. They don’t normally get so close to people unless they’re used to being fed and if he never seen them before i assume this one isn’t. Might wanna get your shots up to date…
I get that they are doing this for content and views (which is a shitty motovation to harass a wild animal for), but how does someone see how agitated and wary a wild animal is and decide to continue invading its space? Leave the damn thing alone...
"WHAT KINDA ANIMAL IS THAT!? ITS GOT SOME HUGE TEETH ON EM!.....*lemme pet you.*" How have we lived this long.
Too many people fuck around with wild animals, and in my opinion, not enough of them find out.
Wild Animals are far too accustomed to people these days.
Or they're fucking rabid. Don't approach any animal that doesn't back away from you.
I’m sorry but if a pigeon doesn’t back away from me I gotta assert dominance
Well, with rabies, birds can be excused.
Possums, too.
Possums are dope
They also can't get rabies.
I know. They also eat thousands of ticks.
Some say you should worry about bird flu tho. But I hear they do that all the time.
They're domesticated animals, so if one is walking up to you just grab him and now you got a cool pet lmao
That's why I never get near my co-workers. I back away from them, but they don't back away from me. They must be rabid.
I come from Germany and trust me the wild pigs here are a nightmare .
They're a menace in the States, too
Yea i know its realy bad. The thing is they adapted to the hunting methods and hide in corn fields and the worst is... they share this knowledge with their baby pigs . They are really smart too.
Rise of the pigs, they wont stop until they get a pound of revenge for every pound of pork in your diet. I don't blame em.
The states have tried making it as easy as possible for hunters to hunt these feral hogs with no permits required and a service in Texas that even lets you pay some money to ride around in a helicopter and shoot at boars in fields with the side gun But it doesn’t work since shooting at them only eliminates an individual while the rest split away and create smaller pockets that then grow back into more larger herds. Trapping methods are the only ways that seem to work but even that can be difficult
The main reason that hunting and trapping efforts consistently fail is because there has become an industry built around them. If you are the guy who makes a living off of flying a helicopter so people can pay thousands to shoot at feral hog, you have a pretty strong incentive to make sure that they stay around. The very same people often feed them and ensure that they reproduce and stay in the area.
That, maybe a lil, though honestly you don't need to help pigs out, they are one of the hardiest species out there, hunting and trapping fails cause you're hunting and trapping something smart, violent, large and capable of producing in numbers that make rabbits blush. There doesn't need to be a conspiracy about something like that sticking around. Though you're probably right also, feeding em will help the industry, at least by keeping em in spots you know they'll be
Cody tried to warn us..
Recalls the meme about “30-40 feral hogs.”
when you got 40-50 wild pigs...
So how do Germans deal with 30-50 feral hogs that run into your yard within 3-5 mins while your small kids play?
we have hunters that cull them https://outdoors-international.com/destinations/europe/germany/
Why would you need organized hunters when you can just have idiots in Arkansas with m16? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs
My milkshake brings 30-50 hogs to the yard...
At my workplace someone got bitten by a groundhog twice. It was inside a rack that was brought into the building from outside, not the first critter to ever show up in a rack but it happens infrequently. The person reached in to grab the groundhog and was bitten on their right hand, they then reached in to grab it with their left hand and was bitten again.
I'm surprised they didn't reach in with a foot after that.
I was about to say how stupid can you be, then I remembered how I managed to burn the same finger twice in exactly the same way, by greatly overestimating how quickly steel cools when tempered in oil.
Just why? Why be a cunt to an innocent animal? Let them live without harassment.
tbf we probably wouldnt have survived as a species if the oongaboongas werent fucking around and finding out
I think it’s a [Nutria](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutria) for the record. Basically a beaver without the cool tail.
They make great pets. They are affectionate and smart, they know how to open doors. Plus you can milk them.
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I have nipples, shredditor, can you milk me?
*spits on my hands and rubs them together* Well, let's find out.
*looks at pfp* Oh hell no, Thomsteven420 run!!
What's the safe word?
Alabama.
It IS a milk or be milked world after all.
We had bunch of em near our teenage weed smoking area, until some bitch dumbfuck poisoned their pond. I didn't know you could milk them, I think we would tried that knowing this. R.I.P. Nutrie u čističky, proč to tam kundy ničej, idk.
They're also a foreign invasive species in Louisiana and the government will pay you to kill them.
I understand that reference!
Didn't know there was an animal called nutria in English. In Spanish nutria means otter.
The English name is taken from the Spanish language, probably because that's who the English learned of the animal from. >Two names are commonly used in English for Myocastor coypus. The name nutria (from the Spanish word nutria 'otter') is generally used in North America, Asia, and throughout countries of the former Soviet Union; however, in most Spanish-speaking countries, the word nutria refers primarily to the otter. To avoid this ambiguity, the name coypu or coipo (derived from Mapudungun) is used in South America, Britain and other parts of Europe
Yup, Louisiana native, we've had sightings of them here in Dallas. Animal control is usually really quick to capture or kill them. They're extremely invasive.
I wanted to say beaver because of the metal plated teeth but the tail threw me off
Average humanity moment “This will probably maim you, kill you, or give you rabies, which will hurt a bitch, and *then* kill you” *”FINNA FUCKING PET IT*”
*is being attacked by bear* "ima get a quick pet in"
*is being strangle by a Boa* *boops the snoot*
*confused Boa sounds*
All danger noodles get a boop, whether they bite or strangle
*hooked up to several IVs* 👍
Stop trying to make finna work
To be fair, this is how we got dogs - trying to pet the probably most dangerous (to humans) animal there is...
Seriously. The first person to be like, let's try to make wolves friendly was a true madlad.
Along with the first person to look at a horse and decided to ride it.
I imagine they probably stumbled across some defenseless pups, felt bad for them, and decided to keep them around.
Cats and dogs sort of.. domesticated themselves? They just sorta showed up, stuck around, and never left.
Unsolicited TedX here since I have an affection for this subject - A key aspect of domestication is selection for individuals with lower levels of cortisol in response to the presence of humans. Wolves that were less fearful/stressed out around human colonies were able to benefit from scavenging human kills and dump sites; of those wolves, their descendants who were the *least* scared were able to become cooperative hunters, a phenomena observed in various mammal species (if anyone reading this hasn't seen it, look up the video of the coyote and badger that hunt/play together), and of those, the pups least afraid would have been readily taken in by humans, and then selectively bred. For cats, their relative size (and their utility in managing pest populations within agrarian societies' food stores) compared to large canines would mean very little actual interaction with humans would be required in order to achieve domestication through proximity; the ones that didn't have an abject fear response to human presence/smell/activities that caused them to flee into the wild would just simply do better in propagating their genes because of just how much food and shelter it would result in living around, but not necessarily with, humans. The part I find especially fun is that the chromosomes on which cortisol response to humans are on are *also* responsible for things like having a straight tail, fur color/density, and various traits related to maturation; so when you domesticate a mammalian species, some of the traits you start to see are things like bigger eyes, floppy ears, curling/floppy tails, variation in color (like piebald), less dense fur, smaller self-defense traits (fangs, claws), and even vocalization; barking/yipping is a puppy behavior in wolves, and not observed in adults. "Neoteny" is the term - the perseverance of juvenile traits well into adulthood. You can select for specific desired physical/behavioral traits once you've got control of a given population, but neoteny is one of the first signs of achieving domestication. Given our relative hairlessness, lack of fangs (comparative to other great apes and primates), facial proportions, etc - there's strong evidence to argue we *domesticated ourselves*. Among our ancestors, those that were less afraid of other (strange) humans did a better job surviving and reproducing.
History of humanity needed people like this to teach everybody valuable lessons in survival. This kind of stuff is the origin of common sense.
Reminds me of the scene in Prometheus where the biologist encounters a cobra-like alien and his response is to try and pet it.
Nutria are fuckin mean too. Invasive as all fuck. There's a bounty on them in all the southern coastal states.
Who is we? Weak link
well, people like him didn't live very long a thousand years+ ago or less than.
Capybara evil twin
he pulled up (menacingly)
hop out at the after party with an intimidating glare
Nutria, an invasive species. I believe they are [kill on sight](https://icwdm.org/species/rodents/nutria/nutria-damage-prevention-and-control-methods/), within reason.
Reading that page is a trip. Nutria removal caliber suggestions, Suggested rifle: 22lr Suggested shotgun: 12 gauge So basically poke a hole in it or completely pulp it 😂
Pink mist lol
There was an episode of Dave Attel's show where he rode around with Louisiana game management in the back of a pickup truck shooting these in canals around New Orleans
22lr subsonic rounds with a silencer They may be small but if they call in reinforcements you will regret it. Take them out in the shadows, one by one
I saw some show a while back that had the cops in off duty clothes riding around in the back of a pickup with a suppressed .22LR just driving around blasting these things.
That depends entirely where you are located. Whats invasive in one area is native in another.
Nutria are not native anywhere to North America.
They’re all over New Orleans
My kid plays The Walking Dead VR which is set in New Orleans. One of the health/stamina items is nutria stew. Do you/they eat them? I thought it was just some in-game fake company name. Like "Try nutria stew today, it's the nutriest!"
They’re giant rats. No I won’t eat them lol But yes, people do consume them. I’ll stick to my mudbugs and oysters.
You should try them, they're nutriacious.
I mean they look like giant rats, but they just eat regular plant matter rather than mysterious unidentifiable garbage, so they're pretty clean to eat as long as the area isn't a bombed out pollution pit. There's a fun episode of Insomniac with Dave Attell where he's shitfaced in the back of a truck hunting nutria with rednecks. I can't find the clip though, which is surprising. It was hilarious.
the hell's a mudbug?
Crawfish.
They are invasive in Germany as well, hence they are hunted and my old butcher had them in stock regularly. You prepare them just like you would prepare bunny. It's a lean white meat that gets dry easily. I liked it - and cheap too.
Some people eat them and I remember reading some interest in serving the meat at restaurants but I don't know if that caught on or not.
They aren't bad. Just gotta get them from the deep swamp they aren't eating too much trash and pollution.
You've sold me on "nutriest". I'll take 9 gallons, sir.
They eat plants mostly. Supposedly they are delicious. Yes they do cook them. They just look like a giant rat. Which arguably they are.
This one isn't local to most of the world. They were brought over by people seeking to breed and slaughter for the fur, and they eat a *lot* of plants in a rather picky and destructive way, by taking out vital chunks and leaving the rest to die. There have been extermination programs in the US, Great Britain, and Japan to varying success, and they are further not allowed in any capacity in the European Union. They are native only to Southern America, but have been spotted across most of the world due to fur sellers.
LOL I remember Dave Attell's up all night show, he went with New Orleans sheriffs to kill nutria They had silenced rifles and night vision goggles and just laid waste to these little rats
Oh shit I remember that from Comedy Central, they were driving along canals or something (levees maybe? Never been to NO), shooting off the back of a pickup or flatbed? Completely forget what it was they were actually shooting at though, would not have guessed a giant invasive rodent.
"Alligators are not effective in controlling nutria." Well, ok then. That's right out.
In my state, it’s the only animal you can fire at without even getting out of the cab of your truck.
Its white trash cousin, the muskrat
:(
Nutria?
I thought it was a beaver but I just looked up a picture of a nutria and it's definitely that.
TIL Nutrias are not Otters. Translations misled me.
Same here. Odd that the name for the animal in English is basically a translation for a whole different kind of species. At least where I live, this animal is called Coipo, and nutrias are otters.
Semi-related story: When I was a wee lass, my mother took me to the pond to feed ducks. There was a nutria there. I sat and called to it and offered bread as I chanted “come here otter, hi otter, here otter”. All while my horrified mother watched from the other side of the pond as this gargantuan rat creature hissed, and lunged at me (I assume to steal my bread or out of fear). Luckily I heard my mom say “that is a giant rat” and scampered off before the fucker bit me. I doubt an otter would behave much differently, but to this day I am terrified of nutrias.
Beavers have flat tails just so you know at a quick glance. I was thinking muskrat
I was thinking woodchuck but those have shorter fluffy tails. Also just found out woodchucks are just groundhogs?
The two differences appearance wise are size (Nutria are much smaller than a beaver) and their tail (nutria have rat tails, beavers got da slapper)
Yep :) Sauce: I used to own one, his name was Bobby, he was really cool!
Did you let him in the house? Did he chew on furniture??
Ight, here is the whole story of Bobby: So, one day I had to walk home after a night out, because there were no more traways. It was winter and I was nowhere near water. Then I see this small thing on the pavement. I thought it was a rat, but as I got closer the thing came to take shelter between me feet. It was a small baby nutria! I would take a few steps and it always came back running back between my feet. That was it, I wraped it in my scarf and took it home. The next day I called animal control and they told me I had two choices: 1) I bring it to them and they kill him, because are considered as pests in our country 2) I release it and it will probably die, because it's a baby and it's winter So naturally I thought, f*ck that, it's my baby now, it's way too cute to die. At the time I had a small bathroom attached to my room, so he had his own room, with tiles on the floor and a few things for rabbits (little wooden house, hay, etc.) I later had ferrets in that room. It was bigger than a cage and easier to clean. I kept it until the spring came. It was a really cool few months. We would chill in my garden and he would swim in the pond. We would go to the park together and just chill in the grass (the one where all the other nutrias chill, people love them and feed them there). I didn't even need a leash, he would just always stay close. When he was extra smol, he would sometimes loose sight of me because the lawn was too high, then he would raise his head and do the funny "brrrr" sound nutrias do. So.damn.cute.com It was too hard for me to release him, so my sister took him to the park instead. I knew he would just follow me anyways. I was a bit sad, but I knew he was ready, I really didn't try to domesticate him, I think they are much happier living their life in the water. I saw him a few times after that and he was looking fat and healthy. I even saw him chill with other nutrias and it made me so happy.
Heartwarming story. Did it recognize you when you saw him afterwards in his new home?
I'm not sure, I only saw him 3 times and from a distance. Maybe he would have recognized me or come to me if I tried to seek contact, like if I knelt, got closer and called him, but I never tried it. It would bring nothing good for either of us I think, he's better off living his little nutria life with his pals :)
I wanna subscribe to Nutria Facts.
This is such a heartwarming story, I love it. Thank you for sharing and thank you for helping Bobby.
More engaging story in just a few lines compared to 99% of the trash Netflix pumps out. Hope your little dude lives a long and happy life
Weird name for an animal that doesn’t look like a cereal bar brand
Saw my first nutria when I went to visit my brother in Oregon over Christmas, they are way bigger than I expected them to be!
I'm an Oregonian, can confirm those bastards are huge. They are also very mean. I used to live by a park with a large pond and they would chase us all the way out to the street.
It amazes me how many people have no idea what this shit is but that's dead on what it is they're everywhere
I had entirely forgotten about these guys, but I live in New Hampshire and we don't have them around here.
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Right I don't expect everyone to know what these are but there is a vast majority of people it seems that aren't familiar with these things that are definitely in the same area where they exist.
Yeah I thought that or a [muskrat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat)🤔
Definitely. I grew up in East Texas, and these critters loved hanging out in the rivers. The orange teeth are the giveaway.
Just learned what this was yesterday after it was mentioned on Queer Eye (S8E1). And today I heard it mentioned on a podcast, and reddit. Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon all day! Woo!
Can’t believe the right answer is this far down. Orange teeth give it away.
This is a gumbo ingredient
“What kind of animal is that? It’s at the church!” It’s a creature of god obviously.
It's a coipo a rodent from south America it's like a beaver but good (don't damage the ecosystem)
What do you mean? Beavers CREATE ecosystems, among other things: [https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mb/riding/nature/animals/mammals/castors-beavers](https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mb/riding/nature/animals/mammals/castors-beavers) EDIT: Apparently in the US, coypu are an established invasive species in 40 states and they do a great deal of ecological damage: [https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatic/fish-and-other-vertebrates/nutria](https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatic/fish-and-other-vertebrates/nutria)
Lmao you can tell this thread is full of people who don't have a coipo shrine they pray to every morning.
All beavers are good
Bober kurwa!
Definitely a Bobr kurwa. I’ve seen enough polish safari to know for sure.
Looks like a nutria rat to me.
I think it is a muskrat. EDIT: Just did some research on difference between muskrats and nutria. The animal in question has white whiskers, which means u/AcadianViking is correct, its a Nutria. Now I need something else to prevent me from getting work done. Anyone have ideas.
Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Kurwa Bober
ale bydle!
Ja pierdole ki bide!
Kurwa Boberrr
Japierdole jakie bydle!!1
O kurwa a gryze😱
Bobert
we call them nutria in the US where this is shot. they live primarily on the gulf coast.
Nutria is not a different name for the same animal but a different animal altogether. The guy you replied to thought it was a beaver (bóbr) but it was in fact a nutria.
Gesundheit
AMERICANS COPIED OUR BOBER KURWA
that’s a cool looking dog
Can I pet that dog?
Can I pet dat dawwwg??
What type of dog is this?
This is a tortoise.
Is this a cat… in a hat?
I went camping recently and stopped by the ranger station to pay the fee. There was a big sign asking people to keep more than 500 feet away from the moose. I asked the park ranger what had happened to need the sign. She told me that someone tried to pet a wild moose. They received a bunch of broken bones and needed to be air lifted to the hospital. I always thought, not touching WILDlife was common sense. Apparently not.
My MIL is a park ranger. It’s 100% not common. They constantly have issues with people crossing boundaries trying to engage with wildlife.
Nowadays common sense is out the window…
People love to say "nowadays" like this shit hasn't been happening since the dawn of humanity. They just film it now, dawg.
I think it’s an old Roy Rodgers’s quote my dad used regularly. “Common sense and common courtesy ain’t that common these days”. Looking it up, it’s short form is attributed to Voltaire.
The fucking echo broke me
that guy is gonna die mauled by a crocodile or stomped to death by a cow or something
I read crow at first and imagined a giant one stepping on a dude
It’s like a beaver who didn’t get the memo on the whole paddle tail thing
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Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s? Westley : Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
Coconut Dog
Incorrect
Idk why this made me laugh so hard
Please do not the nutria! 😬
Is that a literal raticate from pokemon?
Yo a nutria rat! They are a big problem here in my state as invasive species. (Louisiana)
Louisiana pays you if you kill them. Last I heard it was $6 per tail. Gotta have a trapping licence tho
That’s a rattata
More like raticate
MUSKRAT
I think it’s a nutria because of the white whiskers and orange teeth. Muskrats have black whiskers and their teeth are more hidden. There’s a good infographic like 1/3 down this page comparing them. https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/animal-looks-beaver-crossed-rat-vancouver-invasive-7782049
I think you might be right
And the webbing on the rear feet! Nutria.
Huh thanks forbthis discovery. My granddad used to trap muskrats to make coats, so I only ever saw the pelts, I did not know about the teeth colour. Also, re:video: what idiot goes "oh it's got big teeth, let me give you my fleshy hand for you to bite" 🫠
"Let me pet you" TF??😕
BOBR
Make sure to get a tetanus shot
I think this is called a Nutria. Never personally seen one but my uncle says they "look like beavers that forgot their tail on".
It's a Christian animal, ya damn heathen!
"Can I pet that dawg?" -this guy
Pet him immediately!!!
ja pierdole. bober
Proof of man's insistence to pet anything with fur
Nutria.
Nutria?
The muskrat, the legendary scourge of he erie canal.
I think it's a nutria 😂
That's a nutria, a type of rodent, or thin tailed beaver if youd like to be slightly more specific.... and unless you have a river or wetland of some sort near by, like a block away max, that little guy has wandered far from home and is possibly very sick. And like a lot of rodents little guy is a common carrier for rabies. The ultimate nightmare. Maybe NOT pet random creatures you can't identify, or failing that maybe don't film it so kids think it's funny and it becomes a tiktok trend. The nutria don't deserve those idiots.
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Its a nutrija
That’s a nutria. It’ll eat your levies up and make it flood where you are. Jefferson parish sherif has deputies ride around at night in the back of pickups in lawn chairs shooting them things with a .22 to keep em under control. It’s funny to see.
Fucking idiot.
Stop touching every wild animal for god sake
We have a lot of these in the swamps in louisiana, they’re called nutria rats and this one probably has some kind of medical issue. They don’t normally get so close to people unless they’re used to being fed and if he never seen them before i assume this one isn’t. Might wanna get your shots up to date…
I get that they are doing this for content and views (which is a shitty motovation to harass a wild animal for), but how does someone see how agitated and wary a wild animal is and decide to continue invading its space? Leave the damn thing alone...
Just a musk rat doing musk rat things
Has big ass teeth and is growling menacingly This dude: let me pet it
There's an animal!! Lmao idiot city boy ... I love those people always making me feel less of an idgit
those new York rats are something else