The swamp rodents, called nutria (coypu or river rat) weigh about 10 kilograms each and resembles a rat but body length is up to 60 cm. They can eat the equivalent of about a fourth of their weight each day by burrowing into riverbanks and chomping into plants that emerge from the water. They destroying habitats of endangered species, degrade soil, ruin crops and carry pathogens that may threaten livestock (they also eat small crustaceans, frogs and fish). Nutrias can harm wetlands, which play a critical role in keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and helping mitigate global warming. An invasive species originally from South America and brought to North America for fur trade in the late 19th century, nutria were believed to have been eradicated.
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