Dangerous rat-like creatures with orange teeth invade California – what are they?

Nutria – or coypu – can spread tapeworm and tuberculosis while burrowing through flood defenses (Picture: Gerard Soury/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images)Disease ridden rat-like creatures with bright orange teeth are spreading panic in California as their population explodes.Nearly 1,000 nutria – an up to 4ft vector of tuberculosis – have been caught in the San Francisco Bay Area so far this year.Also known as coypu, a population explosion further up the Sacramento-San Joaqui