Has anybody ever seen this? I wouldn't think an herbivore would even produce the digestive enzymes necessary to eat any kind of meat, but that is a deer and it does appear to be eating a snake. Rat snake maybe?


SIAP searched and checked OP titles for 3 pages back and didn't see this posted. Video is from India because I don't tweet nor how to post one, but it's apparently gone viral over there

I remember seeing about deer eating fish before. Even herbivores generally have some animal protein in their diet, even if only insects..

They've been documented eating eggs, too.

Deer will eat any ****ing thing on any given day. Incredibly stupid animal.

There was a video posted somewhere a few tears back of a deer eating a bird. I think it was a nestling that had fallen.

Found it:

I believe it was posted on the snake thread.

They twist them before they eat them 'cause that braided snake is so good

Yeah. I've seen other videos of deer eating nestlings.

Piebald deer ate a small bird at our property. Bird was there by its mouth when it was eating the small amount of grass around during a drought, and then it wasn't. Animals do what they have to in order to survive.

Saw a video of a horse snacking on fresh hatched chickens once. Wish I didn't watch it.

Mark Fairchild said:

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Deer will eat any ****ing thing on any given day. Incredibly stupid animal.

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With all due respect, I don't know that I can honestly agree with any of this statement.

Deer and other similar animals will eat small animals for extra protein occasionally. We had antelopes who would stomp on rats and then eat them at one of the zoos I worked at. It's actually not that uncommon.

Deer will eat anything and everything to get what they need. They're not the Bambi that Disney makes them out to be.

The Texas State body farm got video of a deer eating a human corpse a few years ago

Yea. Me too.

Back some 30 years ago (man that makes me feel old), I was at the Boy Scout High Adventure Sea Camp down in the Florida Keys. The scouts had a 300 acre island there that someone had donated, and they basically dropped you off for a week of camping on that island.

One of the first nights we were there, we grilled some steaks while observing the local Key deer that didn't seem to have any fear of humans. One of the scouts with us was a team roper, and we joked about lassoing a deer, cooking it up, and eating it.

Then we sat and watched in amazement as one of the deer walks straight through the middle of camp, snatches a steak right off of the table, looks around at everyone, then walks off like a boss.

That's when the fear kicked in; we were about to spend 6 nights on a small island with meat eating deer! Who is going to be eating whom now? Everyone watched their backs closely from that point on.

DriftwoodAg said:

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The Texas State body farm got video of a deer eating a human corpse a few years ago

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zooguy96 said:

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Deer and other similar animals will eat small animals for extra protein occasionally. We had antelopes who would stomp on rats and then eat them at one of the zoos I worked at. It's actually not that uncommon.

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I'd honestly like to have seen that.

Skinwalker