A model proposed by Dixon et al. (1979) for predicting body weights of nutria is tested against a separate set of data on body weights of nutria aged by standard methods. Separate models are tested for males and females with regressions showing no significant differences between observed and predicted body weights. A slight decrease was observed in female body weights at ages greater than 2 years but the sample size was small for these ages.
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