Getting free wi-fi in the rural South of France is proving much trickier than we expected! Still, we’ve made it to Castelnaudary now so hopefully there will be a few more blog updates coming your way…
This is just a quick note to let our faithful readers know that the mystery of the web-footed canal hog-otter has been solved (and no, I’m sorry, none of you win the deux baguette despite a couple of very good guesses). The creature is a South American Coypu: http://www.lost-in-france.com/wildlife-in-france/195-coypu. It turns out we weren’t imagining the Fanta-coloured fangs either:
The Coypu can be up to a metre long including its tail (about 40 cm) and weighs up to 7 kg. its hind feet are webbed and its incisor teeth are coloured orange.
The locals that we asked about them called them Ragondin – a word that not too surprisingly doesn’t appear in the Collins School French Dictionary. So, now you know – the canal is full of baffling surprises…
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