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There's a nice 'hunter-becomes-hunted' story in there somewhere.:evil
Even though, as the article suggests, it's just herbivores desperate for some nutrient they're short of. If the deer are going for bones, it might be calcium.
Although it would be interesting to see a hunter, in hunting season, come upon a deer gnawing on a human skeleton.
(Oh, and don't panic about stories of 'zombie deer' - that turned out to be a form of prion disease.)
 
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Here's a Nat Geo article on the same thing: Never Before Seen: Deer Spotted Eating Human Bones
In a second incident, a deer (perhaps the same animal, but likely a different one) visits the carcass to chew on a bone.

Deer may pursue flesh because they lack minerals like phosphorous, salt, and calcium, especially in the winter months when plant life is scarce.

The video of the body farm is something else.
 

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There are a lot of interesting bear / dog interactions. There are still photos and video of polar bears playing with sled dogs in the arctic. Polar bear approaches, dogs wag, bear flops on its back, dogs wrestle the bear.
 

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Re the deer eating flesh. We have a huge deer problem here, they are everywhere and on garbage day you will see scattered garbage and the deer going thru the trash - they will eat meat if they find it I saw one once munching on a turkey carcass it had found in the garbage. Further to deer not being strict vegetarians, I once read an article on bird banding. Scientists would set up nets in the forest and capture birds to band and count them and then let them go. They were puzzled to find that there were very few birds in their nets and surmised that something might be taking them. After setting up a camera they discovered the culprits - deer, who were apparently delighted to have such an easy source of protein.

As for the bear and dogs. They do have a common ancestor but in general they don't get along. We had a dog that hated them and as soon as he saw one, he'd chase it up a tree. This was not something we encouraged but he would know if there was one in the area before we would be aware.

As for the photo of the polar bear and sled dogs. Polar bears will eat ANYTHING and they will kill and eat dogs if they catch them. The scientist who watched that encounter believed that the bear was not hungry and that it was young enough to still be playful which saved that dog's life.