Odd behavior

[jmall]

Has anyone seen a deer eat a live animal before? My link

[200"mulie]

ya huh thats something.....one day an elk saves marmot ... and then the other a deer eats bird!! Some crazy stuff going on out there

[Pine Donkey]

Thats pertty wierd! Must be due to Global Warming.

[CRAZYBUCK]

Oh no they are meat eaters we are now gonna be the hunted lol. That is crazy

[billrquimby]

Could be that little whitetail buck is only doing what its ancestors did.

 

If you will look at the hide on the lower jaw of almost all of the world's 40 some-odd species of deer (including North America's elk, moose, mule deer, and whitetails), you will see a dark mark on each side. It is believed by some (including me) that these marks were passed down from prehistoric times when the ancestors of today's deer had fangs and were omnivores.

 

Three deer species with fangs still survive in Asia -- the muntjac, the water deer, and the musk deer. Only the muntjac has antlers.

 

Interesting to me, at least, is that caribou have the largest antlers in proportion to their size of any deer but are one of the exceptions in that they do not have these "remnant fang marks" on their jaws.

 

Bill Quimby

[kpinaz]

The have been known to be omnivores for years.

There was a bird study once where nets were strung across a field, and during the night the birds would come and eat the birds out of the nets. There was another that involved placing cameras on the nests of some ground bird for study, and they caught deer coming in and raiding the nests and eating the eggs and hatchlings.

I guess you could call them "opportunistic" feeders

[200"mulie]

The have been known to be omnivores for years.

There was a bird study once where nets were strung across a field, and during the night the birds would come and eat the birds out of the nets. There was another that involved placing cameras on the nests of some ground bird for study, and they caught deer coming in and raiding the nests and eating the eggs and hatchlings.

I guess you could call them "opportunistic" feeders

 

 

lol and during the night the birds would come and eat the birds out of the nets

 

but i got what you meant

[Ad-Hunter]

I shot a 90 inch buck 2 years ago that had a fang tooth. I did a European mount on it and kept the fang and glued it back into place. It is the Buck in my Avatar here.

[.270]

ain't an elk ivory the remnanat of a tusk? i saw photos of a prehistoric elk skeleton being dug up once and it had tusks. it was in the U.S. too. seems like the irish elk had big tusks too. and they ain't even prehistoric. there is an island around greece somewhere that they have a buncha cattle on and they feed them fish. man, i bet the milk tastes bad. i think most animals will eat about anything if they get the opportunity. i seen a gut eatin' turtle last hear in colorado. Lark.

[200"mulie]

ain't an elk ivory the remnanat of a tusk? i saw photos of a prehistoric elk skeleton being dug up once and it had tusks. it was in the U.S. too. seems like the irish elk had big tusks too. and they ain't even prehistoric. there is an island around greece somewhere that they have a buncha cattle on and they feed them fish. man, i bet the milk tastes bad. i think most animals will eat about anything if they get the opportunity. i seen a gut eatin' turtle last hear in colorado. Lark.

 

 

 

say what? ha

[.270]

lots of extinct deer had tusks. some had really big ones. the irish elk had tusks several inches long. i've been told and read many times that the elk ivory is a remnant tooth that used to be a tusk. the photos i saw of the one they dug up, it had fairly large tusks. i was wrong about the irish elk being prehistoric. said they died out about 11,000 years ago. i think bill quimby killed the last one. and cows eat fish in a lot of places. but that one island, there ain't any feed part of the year and they feed em some kinda big ol fish. kinda gross to watch. i'd hate had to have a t-bone offa one. surf and turf in the same piece o' meat. Lark.