Branxhunter
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Terrific photo Aaron!
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Terrific photo Aaron!
Not to mention that the meat of most exclusive carnivores tastes skunky because it contains butyric acid. Reptiles, on the other hand, are mostly edible. You could buy iguana meat in the open market in Belize City when I lived there. Which reminds me, did you consume any of that giant gator? I've only had gator tail once or twice, but it was quite tasty.The same reasoning for not consuming cat, lion, etc, as they carry many bad parasites including worm species that can migrate to the brain. A fatal curiousity.
Some fancy chef in New Orleans is promoting nutria dishes, to encourage people to hunt or trap them.That’s like Nutria here. Only I wouldn’t eat one if you held a gun to my head. They were a fur bearer introduced for fur farming during the 1800’s. The market went belly up and they were released, only to survive and expand. Even my residential property gets invaded.
Yuk !!!nutria dishes
That reminds me of a very memorable dinner with friends in Belize. There is a large rodent in Belize called a gibnut (known elsewhere as a paca). Considered a delicacy by the locals, it is hunted in the forest and generally served in a stew or grilled. Anyway, when I lived in Belize I was visited by a pair of female friends. I picked them up at the airport late in the evening and took them to dinner at the Bellevue Hotel, which was about the only semi-respectable place open that late. The waiter informed us that the special of the day was gibnut stew. Well, that was fine - my guests were adventurous types and with my career, I was used to eating most anything that was put in front of me. So, we told the waiter, Gibnut it is! A few minutes later, the waiter returned with a sheepish look on his face and said very sorry, we are all out of gibnut stew - would you mind lobster instead? I said sure, and the girls almost fell out of their chairs laughing. The lobster was, of course, fresh caught and delicious. My friends still tell the story of the time in Belize that they had to take lobster as a substitute for rodent stew.BTW, in some desert regions there is a very large field rat that nests in cactus & claimed to be a delicacy by Indian tribes, but I’ll never, ever try one
Having seen a few of them in zoos, I have no trouble believing 200#. They are said to be a favorite food of jaguars.Although it is the world's largest rodent, I'd take the claim of a 200-pounder in the Wiki article below with a generous grain of salt.