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Doonie had given me a nutria rat skull one Valentine's Day.
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Returning to his desk, he picked up the dead nutria.
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Even to his unpracticed touch, he could tell the nutria's neck had been broken.
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The name is a combination of nutria (Sp., otter) and oso (Sp., bear).
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But an image of the dead nutria lying on his boss's desk stayed with him.
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In Italy, a bigger coypu infestation causes damage of up to 12 million euros a year.
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Britain eradicated the coypu, a large rodent from South America whose burrows can undermine riverbanks, in a 5-million- euro campaign.