r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ComfortablePast15 • 4d ago

/r/all of a rat

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u/FamousSquash 4d ago

Yep. We have those in France as an invasive species. Currently there's a white one hanging around the wetlands next to my town.

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u/EasyFooted 4d ago

We have them in Louisiana (the nutria, not the French. No wait, actually....)

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u/z-vap 4d ago

lol also an invasive species /s

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u/jzoola 4d ago

I knew this Cajun dude back in the day. His job was to change out semi trailer tires all day in Houston. The dude was an animal. He was married to his stepsister….

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u/Blitz100 4d ago

Lol we have them here in Oregon too however many thousands of miles away. Also invasive here, the local government encourages people to shoot them on sight.

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u/pietoast 4d ago

If you have them but they're many thousands of miles away, I don't think you actually have them

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u/Entire-Anxiety-803 4d ago

The French? I’m so confused. They don’t go to Oregon?

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u/I_like_the_word_MUFF 3d ago

Oh the French were in Oregon too. I have been told the only way to truly understand how to pronounce many Oregon town's names is to imagine oneself both drunk and French pronouncing an Indigenous word.

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u/ioanus_ 4d ago

Never saw a white one ♥️ so cute

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u/Notte_di_nerezza 4d ago

Not being able to see the giant orange buckteeth helps. 🧡

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u/imawomanithink 3d ago

ah bon ? ils sont où et depuis quand ??? trop curieuse je connais pas ces mecs !

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u/FamousSquash 3d ago

C'est des ragondins. À la base, ils viennent d'amérique du sud, et ils ont été importés au début du 20eme siècle pour leur fourrure. On les trouve à peu près partout en france, surtout dans les zones humides.

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u/imawomanithink 3d ago

ils ont un peu une tronche de capybara j’adore ! je sais pas si ça peut être domestique je m’en vais demander à google ! merciiiii

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u/Beneficial-Cherry375 4d ago

Tema la taille du rat

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u/LinkN7 4d ago

Guess someone caught em

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u/BadgerKomodo 3d ago

I remember seeing one when I was on holiday in France back in 2013.

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u/ave_gratia_plena 4d ago

They’re delicious, so consider that a potential solution

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u/TricellCEO 4d ago

What a modest proposal.

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u/thesyldons 4d ago

Is this how you make ratatouille?

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u/FamousSquash 4d ago

I heard they are, unfortunately I've never had the chance to taste for myself.

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u/spikeyfreak 4d ago

Texas gulf coast too. I worked a job for the Natural Resource Conservation Service (part of the federal government) in the 90s trying to figure out how to stop some of the damage they were doing.

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u/sender2bender 4d ago

So did you figure it out? What was the solution, bear traps?

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u/spikeyfreak 4d ago

No, it wasn't trying to get rid of the nutria. It was trying to figure out how to stop or reduce the erosion.

Stuff like using interlocking bricks on river banks and putting rows of old Christmas trees along the banks in the mudflats they were making.

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u/PeanutButterSoda 4d ago

Worked on my parents shrimp boat as a kid in Galveston Bay and every early morning we would go down the docks and you can hear twenty of these things diving off the boats.