365 Urban Species. #117: Muskrat

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Comments

[bunrab]

P.S. The worst part about nutria in Austin is that they are NOT escapees from fur farms; they were deliberately brought to Austin to live in the lakes because someone thought they'd help control the massive duckweed problem that most of Austin's lakes have, by eating the stuff. Of course, it didn't work that way, and Austin now has a massive duckweed problem AND a nutria problem.

[maybethecat]

we just opened up an invasive species exib, but it is small and only have some animals destroying our environment like some zebra mussels and red eared sliders and some fish

[miwasatoshi]

I finally saw my first muskrat this year -- in a riparian habitat just south of downtown Phoenix.