White-tailed deer within the Guanacaste Conservation Space in Costa Rica have been noticed frequently chewing on sea turtle bones. The behaviour could also be an try to spice up nutrient consumption

By Jake Buehler

Some white-tailed deer on the Costa Rican shoreline have a macabre behavior: chewing sea turtle bones. Researchers have just lately documented scores of the herbivores scavenging on the stays, probably to reinforce their uptake of key minerals.

Brayan Morera on the Nationwide College of Costa Rica and his colleagues had been learning jaguars and their prey utilizing motion-activated cameras arrange all through Costa Rica’s Guanacaste Conservation Space. Alongside some elements of the shoreline, jaguars frequently kill and eat nesting sea turtles, leaving a carcass …