Do deer eat meat ?

[Fcap60]

I was suprised to find a few YouTube videos of deer eating meat. Everything from gut piles to live birds to live fish to human remains.
Any experiences you can share ?

[White Falcon]

Yes! Also my flowers!

[LFD2037]

Look @ their teeth. Deer are herbivores but I guess they may eat meat. Probably not by choice, as-in not their first choice. Desperate times call for desperate measures I guess.

[sharpstick35]

they eat quail eggs

[Bayouboy]

I watched a young buck chew the heck out of an animal's old femur bone one cold morning while bow hunting. He left gnaw marks all over that thing.

[donpablo]

Squirrels have been known to chew bones, antlers and even small animals (like frogs) to fill a need for calcium. Maybe something similar going on?

[R.W.T]

Axis at my place chew on every bone and shed we have laying around

[Fcap60]

Check this out

[ame="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PrH46p1I3UA"]Deer Like Meat.AVI - YouTube[/ame]

[Fcap60]

And this

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk"]deer eating a bird - YouTube[/ame]

[AntlerCollector]

Yes. I’ve seen them eat birds and even venison

[AntlerCollector]

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[Gummi Bear]

Yes, I've seen them eat lizard, and pictures of them eating small birds. Never seen them at a gut pile before (I put them out to hunt predators over)


There was an interesting discussion on here a while back about one eating a bone (which also linked a university study article about them doing this more frequently than we realize as an effort to get more calcium)

[Beerkat]

Yup. Many herbivores eat some meat at times to supplement their diets for essential vitamins and minerals.

[Muddy Bud]

Yep. Saw a big ten eat a piece of fajita at Choke canyon state park once.

[Lone_Wolf]

Check this out

Deer Like Meat.AVI - YouTube

Bet it's the salt