Coypu

What about that Lib Dem MP, asked one contributor, the one with the "face which resembles an indignant Coypu", "as devoid of twinkling humour as most rodents?"

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

Coypu can carry viruses that result in toxoplasmosis, papillomatosis, rabies, and equine encephalomyelitis; bacteria that cause salmonellosis, paratyphoid, and leptospirosis; protozoans that produce sarcosporidiosis and coccidiosis; and rickettsia.

15 Agouti 1991

Coypu mainly inhabit the banks of fresh or brackish waterways. 4

15 Agouti 1991

Coypu have a potential life span of more than six years.

15 Agouti 1991

Coypu are used in marsh management to reduce infestations of aquatic weeds and to keep waterways open.

15 Agouti 1991

Coypu meat is tasty and is consumed in many regions of South America as well as in parts of Europe.

15 Agouti 1991

-- Side view of the skull of a typical "rodent" mammal, the Coypu rat (_Myocastor coypus_) from South America. _inc.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Skull of a Typical "Rodent" Mammal, the Coypu Rat 96 19.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Coypu rat to show the single great gnawing incisor on each side, the four flat grinding molars and the wide gap between molars and incisors.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

Why won't they accept that the Red squirrel has lost out to an invasive alien that should have been culled out like the Coypu was?

Army Rumour Service 2009