How to Use nutria in a Sentence
nutria
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Those nutria need to go, and hell, $6 a tail is pretty good, too.
—Danny Hinton, Outdoor Life, 29 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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The biologist has managed to catch and kill around 20 nutria since last year.
—Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 22 Feb. 2018
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Before the land eroded, the family raised cattle and trapped muskrats and nutria there.
—Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 31 May 2018
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Unlike native Louisiana muskrat, which chomp the leaves of plants, nutria go straight for the roots.
—Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 5 June 2017
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The program is also bringing in dogs trained to detect nutria.
—Cat Ferguson, The Mercury News, 16 July 2019
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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
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The animals are social, so the collared animals will lead the team to other nutria.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
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The storm was also blamed for washing hundreds of dead nutria ashore on a Mississippi beach.
—Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
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Your California cousins may soon be hitting you up for nutria recipes.
—Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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But now there's another reason to make nutria a target.
—Victoria Dodge, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
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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
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The swamp rodents, called nutria, are setting off alarms in California.
—Samantha Maldonado and Terry Chea, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Terrebonne had 82 percent of the total nutria damage recorded in the latest survey.
—Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 5 July 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The nutria has already drawn the ire of environmentalists, farmers and local officials.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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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