myiopotamus

Updated: May 15, 2025

A common rodent is the coypu Myiopotamus coypu yellowish in colour with bright red incisors; a rat in shape, and as large as an otter. It is aquatic, lives in holes in the banks, and where there are no banks it makes a platform nest among the rushes.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - The Naturalist in La Plata