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    Then why was a deer eating my chicken wings? I set some chicken bones and turkey scraps out for a coyote. About ten minutes later, a doe comes up and starts gnawing on the chicken bones. She was spitting them back out, but it was kind of entertaining to watch.
     

    K_W

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    Squirrels will eat baby birds.
    Praying mantis will eat mice.
    Catfish will eat ducklings.
    People will eat insects.

    Nature is scary.

    oh yeah... and there's this...
    [video=youtube;sQOQdBLHrLk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk[/video]
     
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    First time I've ever seen a video of them doing it but I've heard tales of them being quite the omnivores.

    Squirrels will eat baby birds.
    Praying mantis will eat mice.
    Catfish will eat ducklings.
    People will eat insects.

    Nature is scary.

    oh yeah... and there's this...
    [video=youtube;sQOQdBLHrLk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk[/video]
     

    Willie

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    While deer bowhunting in North Dakota I watched a yearling buck pick up a leg bone of another deer and chew on it. Very comical as he had it hanging out the side of his mouth.

    While we were bear hunting in Idaho a friend of mine had a mule deer doe come to his bait. She chowed down on some old pepperoni sticks...until a bear showed up. She beat a hasty retreat. The bear did too after my friend arrowed him...
     

    yetti462

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    Had a college prof. Do a study on nest predation, deer were main predator of fledgling s. FBI lab had time degradation studies of human bodies, deer came and gnawed on human remains. All I can say is kill the Damn things before they get you.
     

    Mgderf

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    Yesterday I watched 2 different does, and later a fox, come in and start feeding on the gut pile I left 2 days before.
    Beats all I've seen before.

    I think deer are opportunists.
     
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