BS: now California has got nutria

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Iains
Date: 23 Feb 18 - 03:35 AM

Who will be first?


http://www.nutria.com/site14.php

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Feb 18 - 03:28 AM

Hahaha, coypu casserole!

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 09:46 PM

You go first, OK?

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Thompson
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 05:14 PM

Are nutria nutriacious?

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 12:14 AM

There have been nutria in Oregon for several generations. The story is that some people invested in them, gambling there was a market for their fur, and released the critters when it didn't pan out. I don't know the actual story.

I do have one story I like. Before I quit smoking cigarettes I rarely, if ever, met wild animals. At that time I did a great deal of hiking in mountains and forests but every time I paused to rest, I lit up. You can imagine that every animal within a mile of me knew there was a human being in the vicinity.

Then I quit smoking- and among other wildlife encounters I was barked at by a deer (I didn't know they barked!), came upon the flicking tail on the hind end of an oblivious deer browsing in a bush next to the trail, found myself in the midst of small twittering birds at a water puddle, and was growled at by a nutria.

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Iains
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 08:26 AM

Sounds like more bush tucker to me. I wonder how they compare to grasscutters?

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 07:56 AM

I've seen wallabies on the South Downs (many years ago) And aren't there wild boar roaming around the Forest of Dean? They're a bit fierce and their tusks are razor sharp.
Here in Norfolk we have the Lesser Spotted Londoner occasionally seen in Burnham Market!

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 06:50 AM

for a while we had a colony of wallabies living on Cannock Chase in England.

There has been attempts to reintroduce wolves to Scotland I believe.

In Dorset there are sightings of big cats now and then. A farm down the road had a sheep savaged by a big cat.

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 06:43 AM

They're very big aren't they Jackaroodave? And clumsy but rather sweet.

Here they've proposed the reintroduction of the beaver. I believe the idea is to protect against flooding in some way. But there has been some opposition. It's always a great risk plonking a new species into a habitat. Beavers lived here 900 years ago, but I'm not sure what the implications would be for our existing wildlife.

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Jackaroodave
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 05:37 AM

Coming next, one of my favorite mammals, the Capybara

According to Wikipedia, several have been sighted in Florida, and a single one in California in 2011.
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Apparently, they have a benevolent effect on the environment, helping to preserve wetlands. In some parts of their habitat they are exterminated as competitive grazers, in others, farmed for flesh and a grease with special uses.

Humans are funny monkeys. (WADR to our simian cousins.)

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Feb 18 - 04:01 AM

We call them coypu here in UK. I think we've more or less managed to eradicate them (escaped from a fur farm, I seem to remember) as especially in Norfolk they were damaging the banks of dykes and water channels. However, some maintained that they did good by clearing away the edges of reed beds, keeping the waterways clear.
They must be feeling a bit hot in their thick fur coats down in California!

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 10:09 PM

There go California's levees.

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 09:38 PM

I worked on northern Louisiana many years ago and remember some co-workers who were also trappers. I learned about the nutria there, and that the trappers were glad to catch any they could for their fur.

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 09:27 PM

There's a good page on nutrias at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. I'd swear I saw them maybe ten or fifteen years ago at Lake Winnemucca (south of Lake Tahoe), at an elevation of about 8,500 feet. Maybe it it was some other rodent.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: bobad
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 09:09 PM

They make nice fur coats.

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 07:37 PM

Argentina?? That's where the nutria originate?

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 06:59 PM

you had to bring Arnold Schwarzenegger into this ...

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: Greg F.
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 06:51 PM

Uh Hunh. Killer Rodents From Hades.

Be better if Califoria expended its resources documenting and eradicating Republicans - that would benefit mankind a great deal more.

All in all its just another rat in the wall...... HEY HUMANS!! LEAVE THEM RATS ALONE!!

Subject: RE: BS: now California has got nutria
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 06:39 PM

Californians are asked to report nutria sightings
at
[e-mail]
or at
the nutria hotline
[phone].

Subject: The Nutria Are Coming
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 06:33 PM

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife
is participating in a multi-agency
Nutria Response Team for their state.

Sightings in California are documented since March 30, 2017.
The CDFW newspage expressly speaks of
"the goal of eradicating nutria from the state."

Wonder if it's too late . . .