What predators "bury" thier kill?

[Talondale]

Last night my Dad shot a doe.  We followed the blood trail for about 80 yards but lost it on the edge of some pines.  He went back this morning and found her 50 feet from the last place we looked.  Something had been eating on her and had covered her with leaves.  I know the cat species will cover their food and come back to it later but what other predators exhibit this behaviour?  Canines? Bear?  Just trying to figure out what got his doe.

[wtpops]

Bear will

[non-typical]

My second wife would

[jimneye]

NOW THATS FUNNY!!

[Mike Orton]

For all you guys that don't have ex-wives you can not appreciate the wisdom of that posting....

[Coop]

I have heard that bears will and I know big cats also but I don't think you have those in VA. I don't think Coyotes bury their kills.

[electric blues]

cats do that all the time, especially cougars. bobcats and wild cats probably do the same

[SouthMDShooter]

i know cats will, and ive heard of bears doing it also...Curtis

[chrisg]

spotted hyenas will 'bury' food in pools of water/rivers. Odd this because the crocs will take it, as will many other beasts above the water. The water is often opaque and muddy so the meat cache is invisble.
chrisg

[Killdeer]

We have bobcats, bears, and I have heard a few "panther" stories from respected sources.

Killdeer

[Talondale]

Well my first thought was cat, specifically bobcat but then I thought bear are opportunistic and omnivorous so it may be a bear but my Dad said it didn't look like it had been eaten enough to be a bear.  I should set up a trail camera on it I guess and find out.

[BMN]

Originally posted by non-typical:
My second wife would

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

I agree with the cats and bears.

[ishiwannabe]

We dont have cougars here in NY either.....just their tracks and trail cam pics.
How much of the doe was eaten? Any way you could scruff up the dirt around it to try and get some decent tracks?

[insttech1]

eL CHUPaCABre amigo....si, he will bury his kill...and your ex-wife too, senor....

[Talondale]

I haven't seen it yet but he said they ate from the back end first.  Not enough to think a bear.  I was thinking a fox or coyote but hadn't heard of them covering their kills.

[mcgroundstalker]

A trail camera would be a great idea! Bet you get pictures of many critters looking to eat (dads) deer....Coyotes mostly start to eat from the butt end. Maybe something bigger  :eek:  staked a claim and is hanging close by    .  

... mike ...

[J-dog]

Call CSI!

Nope if you have bears that would be yer cuprit-bobcats will of course but not go to the extent of burying that a bear will. Bobcats get my beaver carcasses all the time and bury them, but bears of course beaver size game is missing!

Not heard of yotes doing the bury thing? but I wont put it past em.

Put up a trail camera it will be back-

J

[doug77]

i agree with non-typical

doug77

[DeerSpotter]

The easy way to tell who's going to be eating on it, but a trail camera on it ?  That way you know for sure, because if they buried it, or covered it, that means they'll remember them come back to it.  But if it is a bear, it may smellier scent on the trail camera, investigated, smellier hands on it, and try to take a hunk out of it.


Carl

[DeerSpotter]

I should read all the posts before I posted a    

Trail camera idea

Oh well