Second place goes to the United States, despite a very low value for sheep meat; they eat, on average, 8.5kg less than Australians. This data is taken from the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2014.

The results also don’t rule out the primates eating lots of termites — a reliable, high-energy food — since they contain relatively less of the form of nitrogen elevated in mammalian meat.

While these delicacies are worth trying, the most expensive meats are in a class of their own. Each meat on this list is ...