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How to use coypu in a sentence

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Cattle, and goats are susceptible to FMD and some wild animal such as coypu can also become infected.
These include the capybara, the agouti, the coypu, the cavy and the chinchilla.
In the sand and mud of this narrow estuary, 38 wild animal corpses have been discovered since mid-July – a coypu, a badger and 36 wild boar.
It offers shady towpath walking with the added bonus of seeing kingfishers or the elusive coypu that live along the banks.
Fur farm escapees such as coypu and American mink have extensive populations.
Stories of rats attaining sizes as big as cats are exaggerations, or misidentifications of other rodents, such as the coypu and muskrat.
For instance, the eradication in the 1980s of coypu in Britain, which had escaped from fur farms, cost around €5m but is reckoned to have saved the country a lot of money.
Wildlife includes marsh deer, monkeys, armadillos, anteaters, otters, wild boars, tapirs, jaguars, ocelots, bats, and the coypu, a South American aquatic rodent.
The main problem is that beavers excavate corridors and caves in dikes, thereby undermining the stability of the dike, just as the muskrat and the coypu do.
Examples from Classical Literature
Another animal that is at least in one respect allied to the 'possum is the coypu.
The coypu, sometimes called the South American beaver, inhabits the river-banks, and is highly prized for its fur.
In habits and otherwise the coypu is much like the beaver, but is a smaller animal, and has a rounder tail.
This picture posted online led to speculation the animal was a South American coypu but they have webbed back feet.
And sure enough, as we stroll around, we see deer and, in the river that runs through the campsite, coypu.
Because HEV strains in rats have been recently described, we questioned the capacity of coypu to act as an HEV reservoir.
Within days I found myself covering floods in Exeter, and very soon after the destruction of the Norfolk Broads by coypu.
A twitchers' paradise, kingfishers, flamingos, egrets and storks flew by while coypu paddled past and wild horses grazed in the Bagnas nature reserve.
The councillor also suggested the animal could be a plant-eating semi-aquatic rodent from South America called a Coypu.
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