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This combined image shows the white-tailed deer seen eating a snake on the roadside in Texas on Friday, June 9. The snake-eating deer's unusual diet choice isn't completely unheard of.
Mark Fellowes, a professor of ecology at the University of Reading, U.K., told Newsweek: "Deer are herbivores, of course, so we wouldn't think of them ever eating meat—but lots of animals eat unexpected foods when they lack certain nutrients.
"I'm not aware of many reports of deer hunting live prey, but they will occasionally eat eggs or even chicks from bird nests and scavenge dead animals as appears to be the case here."
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