The biggest examples I can think of are cows and deer. Numerous times they’ve been caught eating small animals yet are classified as herbivores, why?
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I see a lot of the comments haven’t added this so here’s my addition: they don’t eat the animals for the meat. I don’t have any sitations unfortunately but the reason why they eat small animals or bones is for the calcium. It’s the same reason why parakeets in the rainforest nibble on a big calcite cliff. Calcium!
Edit: it’s also why reptile owners feed herbivorous reptiles calcium supplements or dust crickets in calcium powder.
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