Excellent Kilimanjaro

Arguably, the most beautifully long eyelashes belong to the elephant. Most animals (and that includes us) have eyelashes to keep eyes healthy by preventing things like dust, water, and other debris entering the eye.
An elephant really needs them, that's maybe why they are so long in comparison with other mammals. They often tilt head up to eat leaves and that dust often filters down, blowing sand is another and when they bathe or enter water, that's another example.

Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 🇹🇿 ♥️

Today's post is about osteophagia. Osteophagia simply means 'feeding on bone' and it's something that some animals do, even animals that don't feed on meat. It's something that you don't see often, but you could come across an herbivore chewing on a bone

Online I found that osteophagia is done by giraffe, kudu, red deer, camels, wildebeest, tortoises, grizzly bears and cattle.
I can add another one to the list from personal experience as spotted an Nyala (antelope) chewing on a bone!
Animals mentioned in the comments: impala

The above mentioned animals don't get enough nutrients in their diet, they become nutritionally stressed. When this happens they will eat/chew bone to get the calcium and phosphorus their bodies needs.

The animals feel when they are lacking nutritions and they will look for a bone to chew on. While they chew on the bone little parts come loose which they swallow. They will not eat the entire bone, they'll chew on it for a while and drop it on the ground again.
Isn't it amazing that animals can feel what their body is lacking?

Here are some photos of animals chewing on bones.

The African Giant With Beautiful African Giant 🔥