salt licks
Sodium blocks, wildlife
A salt lick is a deposit of mineral salts that animals visit to lick, supplementing nutrients lacking in their diet.
Natural salt licks occur where mineral-rich water has evaporated; artificial ones are blocks of compressed salt placed for livestock or to attract wildlife: The deer trail led to a salt lick near the creek.
- deerAntlered hoofed mammal
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- rockSolid earthen material
- mineral blockCompressed nutrient supplement for livestock
mineral · herbivores · animal behavior · stone · sodium chloride · halite · trace elements · supplements · mineral springs · hunting grounds · big game hunting · trail cameras · horses · tongue · mineral deficiency · moose · wild game · Appalachian culture
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salt lickswater source
Origin of flow
watering hole · fresh water · drinking water · water trough · pond
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