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'Rob the Ranger,' the animal expert who took the video, wrote on his YouTube channel: 'Are giraffe scavengers? Watching this makes it look like they are!
'In reality, this is an ordinary case of osteophagy (bone eating) which is a common occurrence with many herbivores.
'The bones are chewed as a way of supplementing the diet with calcium and magnesium which are lacking in their normal leaf-based fare.'
Osteophagia means 'feeding on bone' and giraffes partake in it when they are lacking vital nutrients.
The bones are not swallowed but simply dropped when the individual has gained enough nutrients or tires of the activity.
Of course, MY gi-raffes would NEVER indulge in such a thing!
Mitch
