# Animals nobody eats

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-nobody-eats/447162>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 28, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-nobody-eats/447162 "2008-04-28T01:18:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-nobody-eats/447162/101 "2008-05-01T05:36:11Z")

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Crows.

You don’t eat crows. Bad Mojo.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-nobody-eats/447162/102 "2008-05-01T13:32:36Z")

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[QUOTE=maggenpye]  
Kiwi are only rare because of imported rats, cats and stoats.  
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How did that work? I can see how rats and cats would inevitably come along with British colonists, but stoats?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-nobody-eats/447162/103 "2008-05-01T14:17:16Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
How did that work? I can see how rats and cats would inevitably come along with British colonists, but stoats?  
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They were deliberately introduced to control the rats and rabbits. The story is sort of like the old woman who swallowed the fly…

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