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...victim, Watta Grey Rodent '65, was first cornered beneath a car parked opposite the Hayes Bickford...
...Rodent, confused and dazed, took shelter beneath the squad car. The car promptly drove away. Left in the open, the escapee made for a corner behind the bank, to an obbligato of, "God look...
...itemizing; still others think that a "scientific" approach is nowadays a guarantee of high seriousness. In Degrees, Butor attempts to en-capsule forever a chunk of reality, like a mouse enclosed in a glass globe. The mouse becomes magnified beyond its importance, and the revolving globe presents the rodent from angles irrelevant to human experience. Since it was a very small mouse to start with, it should be no surprise if, after all that manhandling, it proves to be dead...
Britain's newest animal menace is a big (larger than a muskrat), large-toothed South American rodent called the coypu (Myocastor coypns), better known as the nutria.* Already the coypu has overrun an estimated 40,000 acres in Norfolk, Sussex and Essex counties, and is munching its way inexorably northward. Its appetite is inexhaustible, and by no means limited to farm crops: a Great Yarmouth farm wife recently complained that coypus were boldly gnawing her window frames, and in some East Anglian river towns, coypus have been known to free boats from their moorings by chewing through the lines...
...weed and leave fish unharmed. No native animal eats the weed. One possibility is to import manatees, the tropical American sea cows that are used in British Guiana to eat ditches clear of vegetation (TIME. Dec. 19). Another possibility is the coypu, or nutria, a South American aquatic rodent that has a voracious appetite for water plants. It reproduces almost as fast as Salvinia, and the scientists fear that it might devastate Africa as European rabbits did Australia...