Herbivores Cannibalism?

Who say herbivores never eat animal flesh? This picture shows a maternal jamnapari mother goat eating its own placenta dropping from its own inner body. Zoologists explain that mother goat will have the behavior of eating its own placenta due to the suspected reason that it tries to clean up the environment for purpose of protecting the baby goats from possible danger. If the placenta is not eliminated, it may be easily found by some ferocious animals scavenging in the jungle. Once the placenta has been detected, the ferocious animals will never go far away from the same location until a baby goat has been hunted. Meanwhile, eating the placenta will also prevent air pollution by the bad smell from rotten meat. Placenta itself is full of nutrition. It is a convenient food supplement which helps the mother goat to recover much faster from maternity. Placenta also contains high protein which helps the lactating mother goat to produce more milk for the baby goats. The above picture is captured in a jamnapari goat farm located at Parit Yaani, Yong Peng, Johor, Malaysia.