Coypu?? Really?

dodderangler

Seen on my feed that sightings of coypu ( large South American native) have been popping up in cork rivers.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cork-public-asked-to-report-sightings-of-rat-like-coypu-450106.html
Wonder what people's view are on these and the eradication of them. They cause serious damage to their surroundings and can collapse river banks and destroy crops at an alarming rate.

Mickeroo

Fota escapees are they?

ThunderCat

They're big aren't they. Would a fox prey on these? If so I can't see them lasting long as if they are escapees they might not have the same awareness of predators as wild ones back in South America would. That said, other than the fox I'm not sure what else we have that would try their luck against them.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

They are there a couple of years and ten were removed last year. They need to be eradicated. Foxes will not be the answer to this problem.

Day Lewin

Those would be much too big for a fox to take out. Report to the Wildlife rangers.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Mickeroo wrote: »

Fota escapees are they?

No, some 'pet farm' in Cork.

dodderangler

Mickeroo wrote: »

Fota escapees are they?

Fota hasn't got coypu. They have capybara. A much larger rodent. Now they'd be big for even a pack of dogs to take down.
Foxes wouldn't do anything to them. Even the small ones might be a handful.
Can't poison them. Other animals may be effected. I seen in America they close streets for few mins at a time to have shooters drop me under torchlight at night.

Rosahane

They were a huge problem in East Anglia in the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties and a huge eradication programme was implemented, and, since they hadn't totally eradicated, was again successful implemented in the Eighties.

http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/features/coypu-71358

recedite

A stitch in time, saves nine.

corks finest

dodderangler wrote: »

Seen on my feed that sightings of coypu ( large South American native) have been popping up in cork rivers.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cork-public-asked-to-report-sightings-of-rat-like-coypu-450106.html
Wonder what people's view are on these and the eradication of them. They cause serious damage to their surroundings and can collapse river banks and destroy crops at an alarming rate.

Saw one ,curraheen river 3 weeks back,got pic, crappy, thought it was an otter (Murphy's farm walk, behind cit)

Exeggcute

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