Through the 1930s, Vereshchagin had personally supervised the introduction of an initial community of 213 giant South American rodents – known as coypu, nutria, swamp beavers, swamp rats or ...

The States said: "The rodent, which looks like a large rat, is a non-native, invasive species. "Islanders are advised not to approach the coypu, but to report sightings." In England and Wales ...

Hailing from South America where they are known as coypu, the semi-aquatic rodents ... Experts say the populations of the swamp rats are increasing, and are especially common in the eastern ...

In 2016, sightings began in the waterways of County Cork of what appeared to be a metre-long rat with large orange teeth. The coypu is a rodent native to South America, but has since spread to ...

However, when they introduced the swamp rat, also known as the coypu or nutria, to Azerbaijan, they couldn't have known they were unleashing a rodent that would become one of the world's greatest ...