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Old 08-02-2008, 12:46 PM
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Lake Naivasha in Kenya had problems with them in the 1970's when a load of coypu escaped from a fur farm. They set up home on the lake and munched through the buds and rhizomes of the waterlillies. The lillies were home to jacanas and other waterbirds. However I think the coypus just disappeared sometime in the mid 1980s.
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