Floods bring out snakes

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Re: Floods bring out snakes

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the snacking menu is quite open - but not that common
my wife had to do some slick talking to get that cat out of the bag for me to photograph
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Re: Floods bring out snakes

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SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:09 pm I think the comments on Cambodians eating snakes and rats (except large python types) is overstated.
Or totally inaccurate.
The Pol Pot days are long gone.
Five or so years back I had tried the delicacies of what is now referred as the rice field rat, due to its organic clean food, stands to reason that you don't want to be eating street and sewer rats.

from the BBC
Cambodian rat meat: A growing export market

A unique harvest is under way in the rice fields of Cambodia where tens of thousands of wild rats are being trapped alive each day to feed a growing export market for the meat of rural rodents.
Popularly considered a disease-carrying nuisance in many societies, the rice field rats, Rattus argentiventer, of this small South-East Asian nation are considered a healthy delicacy due to their free-range lifestyle and largely organic diet.
Rat-catching season reaches its height after the rice harvest in June and July when rats have little to eat in this part of rural Kampong Cham province, some 60km from the capital Phnom Penh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28863315

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