Agelbert NOTE: Azozeo lives in Arizona.
I merely stated my opinion that you can't live with predators on your property.
RE
I do....
There's a coon tail diamond back rattler that sets up shop by the water dish outside
around sunset waiting for field mice to come out after sunset. His name is Dillinger....
Kathy had to dispose of a tarantula last week. Bottled him up in a mason jar, took him up to the end of the street & set him free in the desert. Damn thing walked back down the street & was on the garage door the next night.
I picked up a baby scorpion of the rug in my room & gave him the tidy bowl challenge.
RE, It comes with the territory.
I'm surprised you don't get bears or moose wandering into town.
There all a bunch of moochs.
One of my friends showed me a vid he took of a whole herd of elk in his back yard eating the bread scraps set out for the birds.
Papa elk was a 12 pointer & he had six **** with him. mmm mm mmmmmmm .....
Fascinating.
I read somewhere that some people have trained Tarantulas to eat out of their hand. It seems they are smarter than they look.
I'll skip that experience, thank you very much.
As to what critters out there will eat, well, just about anything edible. I recently saw pictures (not photoshopped) of a deer with a strange looking "twig "in it's mouth. It was a human rib, as the human skeletal remains on the ground makes clear. The caption was
"I didn't kill him. Please do not shoot". So it seems that herbivores will eat bones and meat, which probably does not do them any good at all. So if we get an epidemic of mad deer disease, you will know why.
Photo without the gag caption:Its attention caught, a deer found eating a human corpse looks up, a rib dangling from its mouth.
Photograph courtesy Lauren A. Meckel/Academia
SNIPPET:
By Delaney Chambers
PUBLISHED May 7, 2017
In an unprecedented finding, researchers spotted a deer chewing on a human rib during a study aimed at examining how human remains decompose in the wild.
Scavengers take advantage of opportunities to eat, and carcasses left in the wild often decay quickly because animals can make quick work of the remains–even human remains.
Known as
“body farms,” some research facilities study how human remains decompose in the open air, including which animals interact with the corpse.
Foxes, turkey vultures, raccoons, and other scavengers are commonly seen helping themselves to decomposing bodies. Researchers at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility in San Marcos, Texas, set up a camera to see whether any other scavengers would stop by–and they were not disappointed.
Body Farm: It's a field filled with rotting corpses
. But no one is burying these bodies just yet.
In a study published this week in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, researchers highlighted their finding: Ungulates, too, will partake in human flesh, if it’s available.
White-tailed deer are considered herbivores and subsist on a diet of readily available plants, including twigs, fruits, nuts, alfalfa, and the occasional fungi. (Read more about the white-tailed deer.)
This is the first time scientists have observed deer eating human flesh, though they have been known to turn carnivorous in the past, eating fish, dead rabbits, and even live birds.Deer may pursue flesh
because they lack minerals like phosphorous, salt, and calcium, especially in the winter months when plant life is scarce.Full article with more mouth watering pictures: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/deer-eating-human-forensics-decomposition/