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Offline CP

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What’s this guy doing?
« on: June 25, 2015, 02:07:12 PM »
This small buck spent over 3 hours in this same spot digging a small hole and licking/eating what came out of it.  Including the dirt from what I can tell.  Why?  What is up to?


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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2015, 02:11:43 PM »
He saw the camera and was searching for the salt in front of it.  :chuckle:

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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2015, 02:12:03 PM »
Mineral deposit is my guess.
The spot where I had a salt lick some years back is now clean down to bedrock.  :dunno:
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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2015, 02:18:38 PM »
Wouldn't be surprised if a human whizzed there. 
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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2015, 02:33:39 PM »
a natural mineral deposit, unless you had pet something there before  :dunno: there use to be a pic somewhere of a crater ate into the earth that deer elk and every other critter would come to and eat the dirt, it was a natural mineral deposit, maybe someone alot more skilled than i can find it
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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2015, 03:22:15 PM »
Mineral deposit. Have seen deer do the same thing in SE Alaska through the years. Interesting that's for sure.

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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2015, 03:39:06 PM »
I bet he found an especially delicious magic mushroom buried like a truffle.

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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2015, 03:56:56 PM »
That's cool to see

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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2015, 04:55:56 PM »
Minerals - possibly high in phosphorus, bucks crave minerals during antler growth - you'll see them chewing on antlers and bones, eating mineral soil, scarfing down eggshells
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Re: What’s this guy doing?
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2015, 01:22:45 PM »
Wouldn't be surprised if a human whizzed there.

Photo below is from deer eating the dirt where I pee (at camp) during early archery elk season.  Pee in the same place each year. Some years they hit it harder than others. Some years I take extra vitamins during the season, some years I don't.

 


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