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Old 07-02-2008, 05:52 PM
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Coypus - friend or foe

Black has up-loaded some pictures of coypus:

... from Argentina.... which surprised me because I'd always taken them to be Eurasian. But no, apparently exported from South America to most of the world:
http://infao5501.ag5.mpi-sb.mpg.de:8...9149.xml&style

I've seen them in southern France and elsewhere where they don't seem to be a difficulty but when they established on the Norfolk Broads in UK they were definitely a problem and had to be eliminated.

Just wondered if anyone else has difficulties with them?
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