Name That Animal
January 12, 2012
If you don’t know, just post a guess in the comments – no researching. Answer will be posted in the comments later today.
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January 12, 2012 at 12:04 pm
muskrat
January 12, 2012 at 12:08 pm
nutra (sp?)
January 12, 2012 at 12:11 pm
muskrat?
January 12, 2012 at 12:16 pm
I’m thinking a muskrat too.
January 12, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Muskrat?
January 12, 2012 at 12:25 pm
muskrat ramble.. come on and ramble along
January 12, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Muskrat :-)
January 12, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Just wanted to drop in an unrelated link for you animal lovers and lovers of teeny things (of which I am both):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120111-smallest-frogs-vertebrates-new-species-science-animals/
January 12, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Nutria?
January 12, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Looks like a drowned rat!
January 12, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Looks like a nutria to me.
January 12, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Nutria
January 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Muskrat.
January 12, 2012 at 2:53 pm
brown and furry and wet? Just kidding
January 12, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Muskrat
January 12, 2012 at 3:54 pm
ANSWER TIME
This is a nutria. I saw a show on NatGeo about them this week. That was the first I’d heard of them.
Since so many of you guessed muskrat, I looked up the differences between the two. A muskrat is not as large as a nutria (not that you could tell from this single photo of course) and they have a “long, rat-like tail that is flattened vertically”.
A Nutria has several distinct features distinguishing it from the muskrat:
January 12, 2012 at 4:13 pm
I hear they taste like chicken…
January 15, 2012 at 12:40 pm
There used to be a lot of nutria at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.
I saw one hit along the road once, and I thought it was a giant muskrat.
Nutria means otter in Spanish. They call them coypu in Spanish.
January 15, 2012 at 12:43 pm
http://www.newbernsj.com/news/nutria-17114-sumner-atlantic.html
I guess they don’t exist in South Carolina.