nutrias
- plural of nutria.
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Since 2017, the Department of Fish and Wildlife has removed 7,841 nutrias by trapping them or releasing other sterilized nutria back into the wild with tracking devices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Native to South America, nutrias were originally brought to the U.S. in the early 1900s to breed and reproduce for a fur trade that was never successful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Stopping the nutrias is mission: impossible,” Gonzales said.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2017
Wetlands all along the Gulf Coast have been shredded by oil and gas development, rising sea levels and a decades-long invasion by ravenous, beaverlike rodents known as nutrias.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2010
Chinchillas and nutrias are obtained from South America, whence come also civet cats, jaguars, ocelots and pumas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
