A snake catcher kills cobras for their meat at a Chinese restaurant in the ancient city of Yogyakarta. Snake hunters catch about 1,000 cobras from Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java provinces each week to harvest their meat for burgers, priced at 10,000 rupiah ($1.15) each, as well as satay and other dishes.
A worker holds a Cobra before killing it for its meat at a Chinese restaurant in the ancient city of Yogyakarta April 1, 2011. Some customers said they believe cobra meat can cure skin diseases and asthma, and increase sexual virility.
A chef prepares a cobra meat burger at a Chinese restaurant in the ancient city of Yogyakarta April 1, 2011
Mealworm quiches are seen at the Rijn IJssel school for chefs in Wageningen
People try an insect snack (meal worm pralines) during a break in the lecture given by Professor Arnold van Huis at the University of Wageningen January 12, 2011. All you need to do to save the rainforest, improve your diet, better your health, cut global carbon emissions and slash your food budget is eat bugs.
An indigenous Miskito woman sells turtle meat at a town market in Puerto Cabezas, along Nicaragua's Caribbean coast August 25, 2010. Around five hundred turtles are sold for food per month in the port. The going rate for turtle meat is approximately $1.10 per pound.
A boy displays boiled rats for sale on the main highway in Malawi's capital Lilongwe.
Grilled rats are displayed for sale in Suphan Buri province, 120 km (75 miles) north of Bangkok, November 2, 2007. Once struggling to make ends meet in pest-infested villages, Thai rice farmers are now making money out of the very scourge that has gnawed at their finances -- rats. Thailand is the world's biggest rice exporter and roasted bandicoot rat has become a popular delicacy at roadside stalls despite costing twice as much as pork or chicken.
An Andean woman cooks 'cuy', or guinea pigs, during a guinea pig festival in Huacho, northern Lima, July 20, 2008. The one-day festival includes an animal show and a food and fashion contest which features the guinea pig, native to the Andes. Cuy is also known as a traditional fried or roasted guinea pig dish which dates back at least fifteen centuries to pre-Incan times.
A vendor selling deep-fried spiders poses with a spider as she waits for costumers at bus station at Skun, Kampong Cham province, east of Phnom Penh March 14 ,2009. It costs $2 for 10 deep-fried spiders, which come seasoned with garlic. The fist-sized arachnids are crunchy on the outside and taste like cold, gooey chicken on the inside.
San Smey, 4, eats a piece of roasted rat in the provincial town of Battambang, 290 km (181 miles) northwest of the capital Phnom Penh.
An Indonesian journalist drinks snake blood during a jungle survival lesson at Sanggabuana mountain in Subang, West Java province. Indonesian journalists have to undergo a mandatory course before they get embedded with the military.
A typical dish in ant sauce is seen in the restaurant Color de Hormiga in Barichara. Every year during the April-June season thousands of Colombian farmers and inhabitants of Santander province collect ants culonas (Atta Laevigata) as part of a traditional ritual in the region. The ants, named 'Culonas' for their big size, are cooked and sold as exotic, specialized food.
A man smokes bush meat at the bush meat market of Yopougon in Abidjan. Antelope, snails and agouti, rabbit-sized rodents also called bush rats or grasscutters, have long been enjoyed as delicacies in Ivory Coast and nearby countries. But bush meat traders say demand has soared since the government started culling chickens and banned poultry sales in much of Abidjan when bird flu struck.
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