Has "deer eat snakes" always been a thing? Has it been there all along and we've just been missing it? Or is it, you know, a brand-new thing?

That's crazy dude.

Apparently snake-eating is a largely unknown but still well-established superpower among small numbers of deer:

"I do believe the deer is eating that snake, I don't believe that snake is hung onto the deer," National Deer Association director of conservation Matt Ross tells Outdoor Life. "Deer have been known to eat animals. There's research out there showing that a very small percent of some deer diet could be songbirds or eggs … not at a population level but an individual deer or small groups of deer. Their teeth are made to be plant eaters, and 99.9999 percent of a deer's diet is going to be vegetation."

So it's just the one odd random deer every once in a while that will eat a snake (or other kinds of meat). Got it.

That's fine. An animal's got to survive. But, I mean, really, though...snake? Can you imagine being that desperate? How bad do things have to be out in the bush there that you feel the need to slurp down three feet of scales and rubber and fangs?

Go find some acorns ya weirdo, sheesh.