Real Nutria Skull Quality:A Quality Skull Length: 8

Skull Length: 8

Only male duikers possess horns which are used in defending territory and when sparing for mates

Average Skull Width 4

often preying on deer

Due to habitat loss in recent years

Real Nutria Skull Quality:A Quality Skull Length: 8These large rodents, otherwise known as coypu, have been almost solely responsible for significant loss of the Louisiana wetlands in the last fifty years. Native to South America, nutria were brought to the United States in the 1930s to be domesticated as fur animals. Considered one of the most destructive species in the world, these rodents of unusual size weigh 15 22 lbs. on average and consume about 25% of their weight in plants each day.