A better mouse trap

It is Sunday and we are all staying in the compound to work. There aren't enough computers for everyone so some of us are doing other things to help out whether shooting soil samples collected from the villages or looking over maps and trying to fine tune everything.

A boy in the village yesterday had some rodent traps and he sold me two for 10 naira. That is about 3 cents each. They are a piece ff wood with a rubber strip tied to one end and strings tied to the other with a small wood trigger. The rodent crawls through the loop, trips the trigger and the rubber strip strangles or breaks the neck of the rodent. It is pretty cool and we have them set up by the kitchen to catch a rat that has set up shop.