Doonie had given me a nutria rat skull one Valentine's Day.

Returning to his desk, he picked up the dead nutria.

Even to his unpracticed touch, he could tell the nutria's neck had been broken.

The name is a combination of nutria (Sp., otter) and oso (Sp., bear).

But an image of the dead nutria lying on his boss's desk stayed with him.

Stubbs looked out the window to see a clump of tourists clustered around the nutria cages.

Michael came to the nutria cages, flicking on his flashlight to check the water and food containers.

As Michael tossed two more chickens to the waiting reptiles, she turned away, toward the nutria cages.

Populations from the four groups differed, though we found a number of migrants particularly non-treated cattle and nutria.

Ignoring the woman, Stubbs unlocked the cage, opened the door, and lifted the lifeless nutria out of the pen.

But lionfish fail as a proxy for controlling grey squirrels, nutria, Asian crabs, and other high-profile species that invade ecosystems.

Well, that's not something you'll ever have to worry about, Stubbs said silently to himself as he took the nutria away.

A nutria appeared and some friendly dogs, and we heard of tame foxes and diminutive ponies to be seen next day.

He led Michael back into the office, then stepped aside so that the boy could see the dead nutria on the desk.

He would certainly have noted the delicate contrast of the fur of the wild nutria with the soft V of her bare throat.

It was during this part of our day's journey that the peons made two captures of live animals in an armadillo and a nutria.