{"id":39390,"date":"2013-05-04T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=39390"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:42:13","slug":"the-coypu-or-river-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/the-coypu-or-river-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coypu, or River rat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myocastor coypus (Camargue) – Rodentia – Myocastoridae – It can reach a weight of 12 to 14 kg! It lives in burrows alongside stretches of water. They waste close to 90% of the river plants they feed on eating only the stems, a destructive feeding and burrowing behavior but… that is not the full extent of the story, as you will discover in the last two photos!<\/p>\n

Ragondin ou Castor des marais -On le dit herbivore: mangeur de racines, de plantes aquatiques et autres herbes mais, comme le verrez sur les 2 derni\u00e8res photos, il appr\u00e9cie aussi certains coquillages d’eau douce!Voici un adulte en approche; j’ai vu des femelles bien plus grosses (leur poids peut atteindre 12 \u00e0 14 kg!):<\/p>\n

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Une Foulque macroule que je m’appr\u00eatais \u00e0 photographier le regarde arriver d’un \u0153il inquiet puis d\u00e9cide de lui c\u00e9der la place, prudente! Wise, this coot will give way to the rodent…<\/p>\n

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Recadrage de la photo pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente, les dents oranges fluo sont vraiment surprenantes:Close up of the previous pic to see its face in details:<\/p>\n

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Il sort de sous ses “jupes”… un coquillage d’eau douce!There he goes, savouring this fresh water shell:<\/p>\n

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Myocastor coypus (Camargue) – Rodentia – Myocastoridae – It can reach a weight of 12 to 14 kg! It lives in burrows alongside stretches of water. They waste close to 90% of the river plants they feed on eating only the stems, a destructive feeding and burrowing behavior but… that is not the full extent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2192972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DrbJqnZPX0M\/UYJ97efzTZI\/AAAAAAAAc7Y\/-Gl1GNhYjiA\/s1600\/Ragondin-D5200A-8821_140413.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Coypu, or River rat","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2407,3639,2571,293],"class_list":["post-39390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-france","tag-myocastor-coypus","tag-noushka","tag-rodent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}