Forensic scientists have caught a deer munching on human remains for the first time ever. <\/p>\n
The animal was snapped gnawing on bones by a motion-sensitive camera set up by researchers in Texas. <\/p>\n
Footage captured the deer nibbling at rotting corpses inside a 26-acre body farm a section of woodland designed to allow researchers to watch cadavers decompose and discover which animals they attract. <\/p>\n
Raccoons, turkeys, foxes and vultures are typically seen feasting on the bodies. <\/p>\n
But this is the first time a white-tailed deer widely believed to be a herbivore has been captured munching on human remains. <\/p>\n
The corpse had been outside for 182 days. <\/p>\n
Experts from the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University watched as the animal held the bone in its mouth like a cigar on two occasions in January 2015. <\/p>\n
A paper recently published in the Journal of Forensic Scientists, claimed this was the first known photographic evidence of deer gnawing human remains. <\/p>\n
It added the deer was likely chewing on the bones because it was deficient in minerals and that they had no evidence it had eaten any flesh. <\/p>\n
Its thought deer probably chomp on animal bones during winter to obtain minerals absent in their diet like calcium, sodium and phosphorous. <\/p>\n
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