Word: nutria
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...Manhattan's Park Avenue, where her mother lives with her as companion, housekeeper and secretary. Patrice dresses well but not lavishly, and if she has a weakness for finery, it comes out at the furriers. Her wardrobe includes two mink coats, a mink cape and stole, a nutria coat, an ermine wrap, and a spare mink skin "to keep my throat warm...
Madame Chiang stepped to the sidewalk, hatless, and with her old nutria coat over a long black Chinese dress. She smiled only faintly as flashlights blinked. She started up the steps as soon as Mrs. Marshall got out of the car. The door opened and Stanley Woodward, State Department Protocol Chief, bade the ladies welcome...
...native of Argentina and nearby countries, the nutria is a rodent that looks rather like an uncivilized (no dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
...Nutrias were once (about 1922) all but exterminated in their wild state, and South Americans tried to raise them. The animals multiplied all right, but their pelts in captivity proved almost worthless. U.S. nutria breeders had the same experience. In 1939, 50 pairs were released in Iberia Parish, La. (All they need for food is coarse marsh vegetation.) Next year one was found 65 miles away by water. By now, thriving in the wild, they have reached the delta of the Mississippi and crossed the state line into Texas. During the 1946-47 trapping season, the state of Louisiana collected...
...market nutria ranks somewhere between muskrat and mink-$1,400 to $1,700 for a full-length coat. But so far, domestic pelts have not been too successful. U.S. trappers do not know much about preparing them. The Wildlife Service hopes that the quality will improve as trappers get nutria-wise. In any event, the nutria will be a welcome immigrant. Unlike many furbearers, most of which (e.g., skunks) are carnivorous, its flesh is pink and good to eat. A carcass prepared for cooking weighs about eight pounds. Some compare it to rabbit. When roasted, say other connoisseurs...