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THE Trustees of the British Museum had under consideration at their meeting at the Natural History Museum on October 22 the serious position in the country in relation to the musk rat menace, and particularly to the fact that now that the keeping of musk rats is prohibited except under the strictest regulations against their escape, the musk rat farmers have turned their attention to the coypu or nutria, an aquatic South American rodent. The latter animal is as large as a beaver, but has a tapering tail; it lives in burrows, and its fur is brown, soft and dense. The Trustees decided to recommend to the authorities concerned that the nutria should, like the musk rat, be scheduled as an animal the import of which is prohibited and which shall be kept only under licence.
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Musk Rat Menace. Nature 130, 659–660 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130659e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130659e0