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Longfellow

Longfellow

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Deer eating a bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk
Synopsis: Birds were flying in and running into the head of this young buck in our front yard. I was watching through the window, and I didn't know why the birds were attacking him. Then, I saw the little bird on the ground. The other birds had only been trying to distract the deer.
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What vegans do when no one is looking. The deer could later be heard (no pun intended) telling his friends that it tasted just like chicken.
 
Truth being stranger than fiction, the OP was not an isolated event.

Field Cameras Catch Deer Eating Birds—Wait, Why Do Deer Eat Birds?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/field-cameras-catch-deer-eating-birds-wait-why-do-deer-1689440870

Deer aren’t the slim, graceful vegans we thought they were. Scientists using field cameras have caught deer preying on nestling song birds. And it’s not just deer. Herbivores the world over may be supplementing their diets.

When researchers in North Dakota set up "nest cams" over the nests of song birds, they expected to see a lot of nestlings and eggs get taken by ground squirrels, foxes, and badgers. Squirrels hit thirteen nests, but other meat-eaters made a poor showing. Foxes and weasels only took one nest each.

Know what fearsome animal out-did either of those two sleek, resourceful predators? Answer - White-tailed deer.

These supposed herbivores placidly ate living nestlings right out of the nest. And if you're thinking that it must be a mistake, that the deer were chewing their way through some vegetation and happened to get a mouthful of bird, think again. Up in Canada, a group of ornithologists were studying adult birds. In order to examine them closely, the researchers used "mist-nets." These nets, usually draped between trees, are designed to trap birds or bats gently so they could be collected, studied, and released.

When a herd of deer came by, they deer walked up to the struggling birds and ate them alive, right out of the nets.
 
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Omg! That is hilarious, and the narration is perfect.

I have spent a lot of time watching deer. never seen anything like that. 

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I liked how Michael laughed when his wife told him the deer ate the bird.

"Oh my goodness he ate a bird?"

"Heh".

"Michael, he ate a bird!"

"Heh heh heh".

RIP Michael! Almost 4,000,000 people will forever remember him snickering at the bird-eating deer.
 
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He was just hungry for some shredded tweet.
 
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He was just hungry for some shredded tweet.
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I remember a few years ago a video was making its rounds about a cow eating a bird in a feed lot.


makes me wonder if birds are the tastiest critters on earth
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I know it’s hard to pass on chickens ...
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I was just reading about carnivore cows.

Lal the chicken-eating cow

https://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/12/20/carnivory-in-cows-and-deer

They evidently know something we don't.

Meat-Eating Deer

Exclusive photos of a whitetail deer eating meat on trail cam.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2009/10/meat-eating-deer/?image=2

Snacking on bunnies and bait piles. Maybe that's what happened to all the frogs, as well...the deer ate them.

Anybody missing a cat?
 
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One thing I’ve learned growing up with the farm critters. If an animal gets a taste of blood they will actively seek it out. Chickens will start eating each other when one is killed by a predator and some of the body is left. Or when we would dock tails of sheep and one would lick the wound that’s didn’t seal up or break open then the taster would try to chew the lamps tails or take chunks out of other sheep. I do know there is no off switch once it’s been done the animal will actively search for flesh. We would have to cull the animal. My parents were extreamly cautious about chickens getting a taste of dead chickens. My dad had a horse that would eat tails off of cats. This sort of thing is probably more common than we want to believe.
 
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Bander124

I think its more common than we know too. Brit MSM even reported it several years ago.

Bambi gone bad! Deer eat CHICKS for a protein hit, snatching them from nests

  • Video footage and eye witness accounts document grisly snack choice
  • Some experts think the herbivores eat meat then they need extra protein
  • Eggs and meat are rich in fats and minerals, needed for growing antlers
  • Animals have been found to eat sea birds as well as small mammals too
  • Other creatures such as hippos and elephants eat meat in desperation 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2981039/Bambi-gone-bad-Deer-eat-CHICKS-protein-hit-snatching-nests.html
 
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bltefft

At one time (2016), stats showed white tailed deer to be the #1 cause of deaths caused by wild animals (usually by accidents - car crashes). That may still be true. It's really not a good idea to try and hug Bambi.

You are way more likely to be killed by deer than by sharks, bears, and gators combined

It’s time America’s truly deadliest animal became known.

The deer is the deadliest animal in America.

https://www.vox.com/2016/9/24/13032272/killer-animals-deer-sharks-bears
 
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