Want to make a meal out of mouse – Come to Malawi
Cooked, salted or dried, field mice strung on sticks are sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi markets and roadside stalls.
A mouse is captured in a maize field near Lilongwe, Malawi
The mice are hunted in corn fields after the harvest when they have grown plump on a diet of grains, fruits, grass and the odd insect.
Joseph Mitengo, from Ntcheu District, Malawi, holds long sticks strung with mice while selling them alongside a road in Lilongwe, Malawi
The most widely eaten species is known locally as Kapuku, gray in color and with a shorter tail than the more common rat.
mice are sorted according their size after being captured in a maize field near Lilongwe, Malawi
Young boys have to be quick as they chase the mice through the fields and catch them. But local villagers have also come up with an innovative trap.
mice are cooked in a pot in the open near Lilongwe, Malawi
One method involves digging holes and putting clay pots filled with water into them. The mouth of the pot is smeared with fried corn husks. As some of the mice fight for the husks, they fall into the pot and drown.
a mouse is chased in a maize field near Lilongwe, Malawi
Malawi, with a population of 12 million, is among the poorest countries in the world, with rampant disease and hunger, aggravated by periodic droughts and crop failure
youngsters disturb a mouse hole to capture the rodents in a maize field near Lilongwe, Malawi
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