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haele

(15,593 posts)
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 12:59 PM Oct 2024

LA county wildlife officials are looking for a mamma deer with a femur stuck in her mouth.

How did a deer get a femur bone far enough in her mouth to get stuck? And why?

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/wildlife-crews-search-injured-deer-with-bone-lodged-in-mouth-hollywood-hills/

I hope they find her, but still - that's a scary thought that deer might be evolving to be omnivorous.

Haele

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LA county wildlife officials are looking for a mamma deer with a femur stuck in her mouth. (Original Post) haele Oct 2024 OP
She was probably after the minerals in the bone Bayard Oct 2024 #1
It wouldn't be a first. Dale in Laurel MD Oct 2024 #2
Saw this on the news yesterday, it's heartbreaking. She will be starving. IcyPeas Oct 2024 #3
They still haven't found her . IcyPeas Oct 2024 #4

Bayard

(30,271 posts)
1. She was probably after the minerals in the bone
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 01:03 PM
Oct 2024

Where are the dart guns? I hope they can save her, and the fawn.

Dale in Laurel MD

(797 posts)
2. It wouldn't be a first.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 01:24 PM
Oct 2024

White-tail deer have been known to knock low nests out of trees to eat the baby birds. (As I type this there are probably 4 or 5 white-tails in my yard.)

A femur does seem a little excessive though....

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