Peru: Buying an Alligator Body Part by Body Part

Written byEduardo Avila
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Posted 19 January 2009 18 years ago

Alligators are commonly consumed in the Peruvian Amazon region. De La Selva [es] writes about an experience in the market of Belén, where people gathered around the animal to purchase body part by body part.

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