How to Use nutria in a Sentence

nutria

noun

• Those nutria need to go, and hell, $6 a tail is pretty good, too.
  — Danny Hinton, Outdoor Life, 29 Dec. 2020
• One of the causes of the area’s land erosion is due to the habits of nutria, a non-native swamp rat.
  — National Geographic, 20 May 2020
• The nutria, a water-loving rodent native to Argentina, was first brought to the U.S. to be farmed for its fur.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The biologist has managed to catch and kill around 20 nutria since last year.
  — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 22 Feb. 2018
• Before the land eroded, the family raised cattle and trapped muskrats and nutria there.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 31 May 2018
• Unlike native Louisiana muskrat, which chomp the leaves of plants, nutria go straight for the roots.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 5 June 2017
• The program is also bringing in dogs trained to detect nutria.
  — Cat Ferguson, The Mercury News, 16 July 2019
• The nutria, named Parish, crawled out of her den at the zoo early Tuesday morning and did not see her shadow, her caretakers said.
  — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• The animals are social, so the collared animals will lead the team to other nutria.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
• The storm was also blamed for washing hundreds of dead nutria ashore on a Mississippi beach.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
• Your California cousins may soon be hitting you up for nutria recipes.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• But now there's another reason to make nutria a target.
  — Victoria Dodge, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The wild boar effort contrasts with one about 20 years ago to get nutria, an invasive rodent, on restaurant menus and grocery shelves.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• The swamp rodents, called nutria, are setting off alarms in California.
  — Samantha Maldonado and Terry Chea, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Wildlife BuzzFeed Says: Alligators, nutrias, wild hogs, snakes, raccoons, bats, and anything else that roams the backwoods.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Now, seven years after the last nutria was caught and killed, experts have officially declared the animals gone — at least for now.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
• Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has increased the bounty from $5 to $6 after fewer nutrias have been caught than in the past.
  — USA TODAY, 4 July 2019
• Terrebonne had 82 percent of the total nutria damage recorded in the latest survey.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 5 July 2017
• In the ‘60s, the Gulf Coast was plagued by an invasion of nutria, a large non-native rodent species capable of doing serious damage to wetland ecologies.
  — al, 17 Sep. 2019
• Timber rattlesnakes usually max out at about 5 feet in length, so the ones Price has found on his property are real giants, probably feasting on rabbits and nutria.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• In fact, alligators may help reduce land loss by eating nutria, an invasive rodent that damages about 6,000 acres of marshland each year.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Deputy editor Gerry Bethge hunted nutria with Lambert earlier this year and shed some light on just one of the many environmental challenges the marsh is facing.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 22 Apr. 2020
• State officials are also embarking upon a Judas nutria project in which one animal is caught, sterilized and collared, then put back in the wild to lead biologists to the colony.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• There are specific traps for miniature moles to two-foot-long nutria, a burrowing rodent with orange incisors that carries pathogens and parasites when diving into pools and ponds.
  — Janet Eastman, oregonlive.com, 19 July 2019
• State wildlife teams are at a critical juncture in their battle to keep the burrowing nutria from undermining roads, canals and water supplies at several spots in the Central Valley.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• The nutria has already drawn the ire of environmentalists, farmers and local officials.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Officials fear the ill-famed nutria — which resembles a large rat but prefers wetter, rural environments — could bring havoc to farmland, canals, roadbeds and natural wetlands.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
• The destructive invasive swamp rodents known as nutria are officially on the doorstep of one of the state's most critically important waterways.
  — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 17 Apr. 2018
• For advice on that, Californians have naturally turned to Louisiana, where there was a big push about 15 years ago to market nutria as fancy cuisine.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Louisiana pays hunters $6 a nutria tail to keep the population under control, with no hope of permanently removing the rodents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019

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