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Some biologists are working to preserve the existing hutia species, designating specific areas as reserves for the use of hutias and other threatened animals, and in the case of species which have been classified as endangered, killing or selling hutias can be punished with a hefty fine. Ever since she began contributing to the site several years ago, Mary has embraced the exciting challenge of being a AllThingsNature researcher and writer.

Mary has a liberal arts degree from Goddard College and spends her free time reading, cooking, and exploring the great outdoors. Mary McMahon. Please enter the following code:. One foot long rat-like rodents called huntias are popular pet in Cuba.

Ana Pedraza And her husband Rafael Lopez think huntias are adorable and have 6. The couple's pets enjoy coffe, crackers, and veggies. Huntias are hunted for food and the couple has tried to rescue the large rodents when they can. They have been rescuing huntias for five years. I personally would not want to own a huntia as I pet. I especially would not like six large rat-like rodents roaming around my home.

Hamsters smansters we need to get ourselves hutias. A hutia is an animal native to Cuba and other Caribbean Islands. A hutia has long front teeth a rope like tail and measure at almost a foot long. The animal looks like a large rat but are "cuter" as some people say. Some hutias are hunted for food and large hutias can even weigh as much as a small dog. Ana Pedraza and her husband Rafeal Lopez find these animals and care for them.

They found their first, Congui, on the side of the road found her a mat and now have twenty-five at their home. These animals are small and can make great pets. Again I do an article on animals. I think it would be quite cool to have a hutia, they are small and don't seem to be very aggressive or dangerous.

I think we should bring some to the U. S but it is so not allowed. Maybe one day I will even have one as a pet. In this article talks about this animal that is like a Guinea pig. The animal can not be found in the U. The hutias he observed there were thought to be the last remaining examples of indigenous G. This study suggests, however, that hutias may have been introduced to the cay by the Lucayans, LeFebvre said. While the Bahamian hutia is a survivor, its existence is also delicate, susceptible to hurricanes, disease, invasive species and landscape changes.

Its conservation needs place its future in the hands of humans. But the value in studies like this one is the millennia-long view it offers conservation decision-makers, LeFebvre said. For Oswald, a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who is an expert in ancient DNA analysis, the project offered a unique opportunity to collaborate with archaeologists. Michelle had evidence that humans were transporting hutias, and then we used data from an evolutionary field to help answer these questions.

It speaks to what you can do when you bring together different fields. We ended up bursting him down shaman dying to drop aggro at the last minute and I tamed him in about 30 seconds. We only had to silence three times, I did it once and the shammy did it the other two times.

Thank you, Mr. Random Shammy for the help! Comment by I just caught this and here are a few things I found helpful: First, a lot of people are saying to use intimidation, silencing shot and scatter shot to interrupt the heal.

Unless you have a second hunter helping you, you cannot stay in BM and use silencing shot. You also don't want to use intimidate because it requires that you have a pet out and you can't tame if you have pet out, which means taking valuable time to dismiss it. Not to mention if you try to fight with a pet, Hutia will pound your pet before it's even out of the gate. I put Patrannache in passive and used its lullaby as well as intimidate to help with the interrupt during one attempt.

The lullaby worked great, intimidate almost killed me, but then I had to dismiss my pet before I could tame. Even if you slow Hutia down, by the time it takes to dismiss your current pet, Hutia will be on top of you and you might as well just kiss your butt goodbye at that point. So the only interrupt you can count on is scatter shot. You have two approaches, massive dps with a near perfect rotation and a slow drain on Hutia, but that doesn't always work.

I watched him heal himself to full a couple of times from K. So DPS can work, but expect a long fight. The other way is to bring a friend.

Here's how I caught him. After dying a bunch of times, I circled the log nailing him with concussion, serpent sting and arcane using aspect of the cheetah , then my wife followed on Hutia's tail with her pally and did nothing but interrupt with Rebuke and Fist of Justice make sure your pally turns off aggro builders if you do this.

When she was on cool down, my scatter shot was up be careful, that concussion is up on him when you go in close to use scatter. Make sure if you have an ally that they don't create dps or aggro or Hutia will turn on them and you'll be on your own. When Hutia hit K, I hit him with a concussion to slow him down hugged the log and ran to the direct opposite side of the log. He was halfway in the middle of the log on his side, I was halfway in the middle on my side.

I started taming right off the bat and it gave me barely enough time to tame just as he got back into melee distance. What I found is that he'll actually stumble through the obstacles in the log, slowing him down.

Trying to b-line it and tame him with a straight path didn't work, either I had to interrupt training with concussion and gain ground again or he caught up to me and took me out a split moment before I was done taming. The log acts as a good measuring stick and obstacle to Hutia. Halfway down on each side of the log provided enough space and he can't hit through the log. If you have to circle the log once more to set yourself up, I advise taking the time..

Once Hutia closes the final few seconds of taming either you'll tame him by a hair or he'll pound you, so once he's on your side of the log during taming, either cut and run and set yourself up again or take the gamble and see if he hits you before the green taming bar runs out.

Plan on dying! But be patient, you'll get the feel for it. Came upon another hunter working on this while on my 86 druid. Took a few minutes, and spammed Entangling Roots to help him out. Was much easier than trying to heal him and his pet. He got the pet, and I got someone to help me when I go back to tame it.

Comment by Starlight96 After trying to tame Degu, this one was a piece of cake. I had the help of my boyfriend, who is a Ret Pally and he gave me buffs. More of a slow and steady wins the race with Hutia. Do not start with a pet. Before you start, take your pet out, then dismiss it. I made the mistake of just assuming that since my pet wasn't out, that it was dismissed. Furthermore, If you start with a pet, you will not have enough time to dismiss it and start to tame. The spirit porcupines hit very hard.

I kited him around the log while my bf interrupted the spirit heals. We just slowly wore him down. I kept up on concussive shot to daze Hutia. When Spirit Will wore off and I was able to start taming him, I popped deterrence and started to tame. My bf healed me because I did get hit once, then I captured him. On a side note, I think that is the key to taming Degu as well.

You need to get healed by yourself or another player as you tame Degu because all these Spirit Porcupines hit hard. I cannot stress that enough. Comment by This one was an easy solo. I just kited her around in a circle around her initial spawn point, paying more attention to getting my Silencing Shot and Concussive Shot off at all times rather than damaging her as much as I could.

Keep Aspect of the Cheetah on and maintain Serpent Sting. Use your Dire Beast, Murder of Crows and Stampede as much as you can to make sure she is taking damage but ensure you prioritize the Concussive Shots and the silence on her healing cast over everything else. She got a hit on me before the cast finished as deterrence faded, so make sure you've kept your health topped up; Exhilaration or a potion should do.

This may be slower than some other tactics, but it was pretty foolproof. Good luck, she's a pretty pet! Then I placed ice and snake traps between me and Hutia and engaged. Since I had an active pet I was able to cast Stampede. Some lite kiting followed; helped by the ice and snake traps. A quick right click on the regular porcupine to abandon pet and I was ready to deterrence and tame beast.

Easy peasy. Lemon squeezy. Comment by dmonroe Not an easy tame. Took several tries for me to solo. What helped for me was keeping concussive shot on cooldown to stay ahead of her, dropping freezing traps whenever I remembered to do so, Aspect of the Cheetah and keeping disengage handy if she got too close.

Scatter Shot will interrupt her but she'll cast her heal again immediately afterwards, but that'll give you a couple seconds to be ready with a Silencing shot. It works out well that Silencing Shot cooldown is 30 seconds, the same as the cooldown of her healing cast. So when Silencing shot is almost off cooldown, be ready to interrupt her next heal. I basically circled around walking backwards and firing off whatever I had available. Widow Venom may help if you accidentally let her get off her heal.

Watch your path so you don't end up backing into a rock or tree and stop moving, otherwise she'll get on top of you. Comment by jocawow Unlike what others have said, it's not that easy. I'm not very good at kitting, yet, I'm good enough for her, kite-wise. Problem is: even using only Silencing Shot, she can put up a 2nd heal only seconds after being interrupted, so there goes the theory of not using Scatter Shot And even using Scatter Shot, she'd also sometimes put up 3 and 4 heals in a very short time-frame I'd guess that, once again, Blizzard fails in these hunter challenges when they are made in a way that you not only need to play good, you need RNG gods to favor you and group up with more people.

I mean, these are supposed to be hunter challenges, not group challenges! And why can't they simply not drop a single thing so other dumb players leave these alone for hunters? I mean, I can live with "get the strat right, die a few times if needed and FD fails", but "get the strat right and have RNG Gods favor you"?

Comment by Nephrayne Solo'd on my first attempt as a fresh level 90 hunter, so I didn't have the gear to back up my DPS. If you're good at kiting, then you should have no issues taming her.

While this Hutia isn't necessarily a DPS race, this is definitely a great method to squeeze out as much damage as you can. The important thing to remember when doing this is that Growl needs to be turned OFF so Hutia does not turn around and smack your pet across the face. This pet needs to be alive in order to be abandoned. I didn't have any issues with her casting Spirit Heal twice in a row as others have mentioned, so by the time she casts it, should be off of cooldown. If not, makes for a great back-up.

Comment by Bighappykitty Just tamed this guy on Dalaran a few minutes ago. All and all not a hard fight, but it was more dumb luck than any skill on my part.

It took 4 attempts, the first I died because I tried the "tame a nearby porcupine" strategy and couldn't manage to abandon the pet fast enough to tame before it walked up and gnawed me to death. The other two times I mistimed my Silencing shots and decided to start again.

Beating it's HP down is pretty straight forward: Kite it in a circle, keep Concussion Shot up at all times Don't wait for the debuff to wear off the mob, cast it as soon as it comes off cooldown and try and keep away from the mob as it hits like a truck. The dumb luck came in on the taming. Once he was capturable, I ran out in front as far as I could, used Deterrence, then cast Tamed Beast. As such, it got in 2 good hits and dropped my HP to the point to where one more smack would have sent me back to the Spirit Healer.

Thankfully, he decided to cast Spirit Heal instead, and I tamed him mid-cast. So, it is possible to tame this mob without a sacrificial pet, just make sure you have a good amount of health. And the Glyph of Tame Beast would probably help too.

Comment by santipants I've been playing since , back when taming Humar the Pridelord was a big deal since he was the only black cat in WoW and was spawn camped by everyone all day and you had to PvP with people if you were on a PvP server to even have a chance to tame him, where even if you got lucky someone would come along and kill him just to mess with you.

I tamed King Krush in Wotlk back when he could actually kill you and taming this guy was the most fun I've had since then. Thanks, Blizz. Comment by cromahr I just tamed this one, going mostly by crescentmoon's post and the advice in there. I had disengage, concussive shot and silencing shot ready on my action bar.

Here are a few other things I made sure of: - I scouted the surrounding area to make sure I wouldnt walk into aggroing mobs, like the tigers or tricksters closeby. It took me like 6 attempts, and during 2 of them, she casted her heal before silencing shout was off CD.