The deer eats people who make the scientific world stunned

Forensic scientists first discovered a deer chewing on ribs on a corpse in a forest in the United States.

A research team recorded a deer chewing on a rib of a remains while learning how the body decomposes in the wild, National Geographic reported on May 7.

Scientists at the Department of Forensic Anthropology at San Marcos University, Texas, USA, put the body of a donor in the school's morgue into a forest and set up cameras to monitor the condition of the stools. cancel.

The deer is chewing on a human bone in his mouth.(Photo by Lauren A. Meckel).

In the following days, they discovered foxes, hawks, cat bears and many other scavengers came to eat the body, but they were surprised to find that a white-tailed deer also joined the process. handle that natural body.

Nearly 190 days after the body was placed in the forest, the deer appeared and nibbled the ribs on the corpse. This is not the first time deer have been caught eating meat, but it has never been discovered by the scientific world that humans eat such humans.

In a study published this week in the Journal of Forensic Science, the team of experts said ungulates also joined in cannibalism if caught by corpses to supplement micronutrients not found in plants.

White-tailed deer are still classified as herbivores with a predominantly plant-based diet including young twigs, fruits, seeds, alfalfa and occasionally eating mushrooms.

Scientists believe that deer can eat dead flesh because they lack some minerals like phosphorus, salt and calcium, especially in the winter months of scarce food.

This finding contributed to elucidating the behavior of deer, and could help forensic scientists gain more information with long-decaying corpses. Based on the deer markings and other ungulate species on human bones, investigators can understand more about the decay status of corpses during homicide investigations.