Deer Photographed Gnawing On Human Remains For The First Time
For the very first time, scientists have photographed a deer eating human remains, in what's quickly becoming a PR disaster for Bambi.
The man-eating deer was documented by a motion-sensitive camera at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University, a 10-hectare (26 acres) "body farm" where forensic scientists study how human bodies decompose in the wild. Although a big part of this is seeing how wild animals interact with the body, they were not expecting a white-tailed deer to come to the table.
This is “the first known photographic evidence of deer gnawing human remains,” the researchers explained in their study, recently published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. They witnessed at least one deer scavenging and then “holding the bone in its mouth like a cigar” on two separate occasions during January 2015. The body had been decomposing for 182 days and had already been scavenged by vultures that removed much of the soft tissue. So by this point, it's likely to deer was chewing the dry bone.
Deer Photographed Gnawing On Human Remains For The First Time | IFLScience
For the very first time, scientists have photographed a deer eating human remains, in what's quickly becoming a PR disaster for Bambi.
The man-eating deer was documented by a motion-sensitive camera at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University, a 10-hectare (26 acres) "body farm" where forensic scientists study how human bodies decompose in the wild. Although a big part of this is seeing how wild animals interact with the body, they were not expecting a white-tailed deer to come to the table.
This is “the first known photographic evidence of deer gnawing human remains,” the researchers explained in their study, recently published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. They witnessed at least one deer scavenging and then “holding the bone in its mouth like a cigar” on two separate occasions during January 2015. The body had been decomposing for 182 days and had already been scavenged by vultures that removed much of the soft tissue. So by this point, it's likely to deer was chewing the dry bone.
Deer Photographed Gnawing On Human Remains For The First Time | IFLScience
