"Herbivores" Eating Meat

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I once saw a video on the internet of a deer eating a live bird. This means that "herbivores" actually eat meat sometimes. Doesn't it?

Depends on the condition the deer was in. Animals are known to depart from their standard diet when food is extremely scarce, but we do not include this extreme behavior when categorizing their diets.

I was just watching a good pet show on the animal network, where a horse was eating the dog's meat instead of his own grass/feed. It turned out the horse was only really attracted to the salt, etc, due to mineral deficiencies. Once the horse was given a salty mineral block to lick, he never touched the dog's meat again.

If they're not getting what they need, they're smart enough to try getting it elsewhere.

@ruveyn

Ummm... You meant the mother eats the afterbirth, not the newborn calf. Right?

Otherwise, *dayamn* that really is something else...

Argh, the subject, not the object

That is: "you meant that the mother eats the afterbirth, not that the calf eats the afterbirth"

Bloody English language...