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• n  aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur

• A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare.
• Another possibility is the coypu, or nutria, a South American aquatic rodent that has a voracious appetite for water plants.

• nutria
• Myocastor coypus

News & Articles

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• Muskrat, coypu somewhat similar to beavers
  I thought I'd build off last week's column about beavers and discuss two more semi-aquartic rodents: the muskrat and the coypu.
  June 8, 2013 - Zanesville Times Recorder