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In Cambodia and it's neighboring country Vietnam, rat meat is in high demand. Officials blame the economy as the reason why Cambodians are preferring it over livestock and poultry meat. Rat meat is also in demand in Vietnam and is eaten in Thailand and India to combat high prizes of meat prize in the market.

Officials said rats were fleeing to higher ground from flooded areas of the lower Mekong Delta, making it easier for villagers to catch them.

"Many children are happy making some money from selling the animals to the markets, but they keep some for their family," Ly Marong, an agriculture official, said by telephone from the Koh Thom district on the border with Vietnam.

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