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Muskrat

Ondatra zibethicus

Habitat:

Found by a small stream in an urban area

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KevinS.
KevinS. 10 years ago
Muskrat
Ondatra zibethicus


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12 Comments

Ursula
Ursula 10 years ago

Pižmovka! :) Although at first I thought it was nutrija (coypu). Haven't seen this one for real -yet, so nice find! :)

Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago

I found that they live in France, introduced because of fur and food :)

KevinS.
KevinS. 10 years ago

I think muskrat.

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Hehehe, I checked the list of mammals of France, but they had not included the introduced species :D. Because of the fashion they have introduced the animals that had useful fur :D

Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago

hahaha That's all rodents I know, including Beaver :)

Tom15
Tom15 10 years ago

It does look like a Muscrat. It has the rudder-like tail that Muscrats have.

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Hehe, and you are totally right, thanks :)

Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago

My last try is Common muskrat... it's introduced in Europe

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

No, it's not that as well. But I need to upload the nutria spotting as well :). I started to think maybe it's an invasive species

Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago

I agree, just remind me of Water vole, my second thought was Nutria?

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

That's the first thing I thought of but it's not. This one is a bit bigger and has a weird tail that doesn't look like the water voles tail. That's why I put the second photo to show the weird tail used for swimming :D

Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago

maybe Arvicola amphibius, Water Vole...?

FaredinAliyevski
Spotted by
FaredinAliyevski

Gif-sur-Yvette, Île-de-France, Tromelin Island

Spotted on Mar 23, 2014
Submitted on Mar 23, 2014

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