Alexandra and I spent some time at the park yesterday, which has become our weekend tradition lately. We went to a different park - one that has a duck pond with nutria in it. It was getting dark and I didn't have my new camera, so the photos weren't turning out very well. I took over 30 photos and this was the only one really in focus.
I enjoyed talking to a lady who used to own 2 of the ducks at the pond. She knew a lot about the animals in the park. She showed us where the nutria's nest was and told us that the mamma had 8 babies in the summer and had recently had another litter. We saw many of the summer babies and we saw the mamma several times - the lady had said the mamma hadn't really been coming out since having her babies.
The lady's husband had hand-fed these nutria earlier that day. They were trying to explain to Alexandra how to get them to eat from her hand. I told Alexandra "no, way!" Have you ever seen the teeth on a nutria? If you enlarge this photo, you should be able to see part of its orange teeth. Pretty scary looking!
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You know, I've heard of the Nutria but never actually have seen one. It sure doesn't look like something I would keep as a pet.
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Living in Louisiana, I see lots of Nutrias. I would never feed them though. Those teeth are horribly sharp and I would never get close enough to one to even try to feed it. Sorry your camera doesn't do well in low lighting. That is exactly why I was looking for another camera. I have lost so many pictures when trying to take photos at night. It sounded like a nice day for y'all and I am sure that Alexandra enjoyed all the information about the Nutria and her babies.
I'm gonna show my ignorance here.... But I've never even heard of nutria. It looks like a little beaver to me. I couldn't get the picture to enlarge, but if he's in the beaver family, I don't need to. If they can chomp through a tree, my kid's hands are going nowhere near that mouth! You are smart.
I've never heard of a nutria either!
Thanks for sharing.
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