Deer are nothing if not symbols of wide-eyed innocence surely youve heard the term doe-eyed or have seen the film Bambi? <\/p>\n
Turns out,weve underestimated deer. <\/p>\n
A study published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences this week reveals that deer yes, those pictures of guileless natural beauty have been caught chowing down on human remains. <\/p>\n
Herein, we report on the first known photographic evidence of deer gnawing human remains, write scientists from Texas Forensic Anthropology Research Facility in the paper, published Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Popular Science reports that researchers left a human body out in the woods in 2014 set up a motion-sensitive camera so that they could study how what scavenging species would do to the corpse. <\/p>\n
It wasnt for a few months that the camera caught our antlered suspect a white-tailed deer with a human rib bone in its mouth. A few days later, a deer unclear if it was the same one was spotted again with a rib bone in its mouth like a cigar, according to Popular Science. <\/p>\n
Erin Cadigan via Getty Images <\/p>\n
Studying the effects of wild animals on corpses can potentially help investigators figure out crucial information about found human bodies, like the length of time a person has been dead. <\/p>\n
Were glad they found useful information, but we wish someone had warned us deer were running around with human-bone cigars a little earlier. A Google search for deer attack nets a lot of results. Waymore results than you might think. <\/p>\n
And sure, these include situations where a deer has fought back against a hunter or attacked a driver after being struck. But they also include deer whose motives are less clear. For instance, a stag that reportedly attacked a visitor at a national park in Australia, or one that jumped a man who had just freed the animal from a coyote trap. <\/p>\n
Listen, deer. Were not all bad. Though honestly, with the destruction that humans have wrought against the natural world, its not that surprising you want to smoke our bones like cigars. <\/p>\n
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