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Saw that this page is a bit sparse, but wasn't sure if the incidents with the sheep on Foula, Scotland and the deer on Rum, Scotland truly count as osteophagy...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0825_030825_carnivorousdeer.html


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in "Feeding behaviors" this is classified as a herbivorous behavior. not sure if the eating of bones is supposed to be there. it sounds like carnivorous behavior to me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.86.208.245 (talk) 11:02, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

Walde et. al 2007 - Osteophagy by the Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) http://www.jstor.org/stable/20424802?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Hutson 2013 - Osteophagy by the Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313002070

Bredin 2008 - Osteophagia provide giraffes with phosphorus and calcium? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575058

Sir Arnold Theiler 1927 - Lamsiekte (Parabotulism) in cattle in South Africa : osteophagia and phophorus deficiency in relation to lamsiekte http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/13209

Caceres 2010 - Was it the deer or the fox? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440311002184

Langman 1978 - Giraffe Pica Behavior and Pathology as Indicators of Nutritional Stress http://www.jstor.org/stable/3800701?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Problems and paradigms: Physiological analysis of bone appetite (Osteophagia) D. A. Denton, J. R. Blair-West, M. J. McKinley and J. F. Nelson http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.950040112/citedby

Osteophagia and bone modifications by giraffe and other large ungulates Jarod M. Hutson, , Chrissina C. Burke, Gary Haynes http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313002070

Osteophagy by the Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos Eric J. Wald1,2,a http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3955/046.085.0307

Ingestion of Fossil Seashells, Stones and Small Mammal Bones by Gravid Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in South Florida Full Access Jon A. Moore1,* and Alex Dornburg2 http://www.bioone.org.proxy.lib.duke.edu/doi/abs/10.3374/014.055.0105

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