The day before yesterday, I was lucky enough to meet this cute little fellow. Not very shy, but incredibly clean, he groomed himself extensively and wasn’t bothered by my presence. This tameness probably led to them ending up on dinner tables quite often in the past – especially in the USA and East Germany, where nutria and muskrat were apparently frequently on the menu. I’m not sure I could handle that, but you hear everywhere that they’re multiplying too rapidly and destroying riverbanks. These pictures are a comic strip:

Merry Christmas!