White-Tailed Buck Profile

White-Tailed Deer, Buck.
Generally speaking, the White-Tailed Deer eats large amounts of grass, legumes, fruits, and other crops. However, whitetail deer...
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White-Tailed Deer, Buck.
Generally speaking, the White-Tailed Deer eats large amounts of grass, legumes, fruits, and other crops. However, whitetail deer tend to stray from their plant-based diet in the winter.
As the temperature drops, the cold hinders the growth of vegetation and threatens their source of essential minerals. To survive, these deer will feed on fish, dead rabbits, and sometimes live birds.
More recently, scientists found the first documented case of a White-Tail feeding on human remains. While observing a Texas body farm in 2017, researchers encountered a White-Tailed Deer scavenging on the decomposing bodies. ????????
(A body farm is a research facility where decomposition can be studied in a variety of settings to gain a better understanding of the process, permitting the development of techniques for extracting information such as the timing and circumstances of death from the decomposing human remains)
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