Are animals like rabbits, squirrels, muskrats, and deer smart enough not to eat poisonous flowers like-?

monkshood, belladonna, foxglove, or lily of the valley? I'd like to plant flowers like these but not if there is a risk animals might eat them and get sick or worse. No danger of children getting to them, just animals.

FlowersBirthday FlowersSympathy FlowersMost animals are smart enough to eat only what is good for them.
Reply:Animals have two ways of learning what is good food and what is not.


1. They are taught by their mother. I have watched robins giving a variety to food to their young after they have left the nest. They seem to do it in a very methodological way.


2. They taste the food to see if they want it. I have watched the deer in my yard sample my young cedar trees. They never take more than one bite, then move on. Oak trees however they will eat a lot and eventually all the young oak trees withing their reach are stripped of leaves.





Toxic plants. It depends on two things. 1. how toxic is the plant will one bite harm them.


2. How much other food is available. When edible food is scarce animal will eat more of what they would not normally touch.





Recommendation: why take a chance when you don't need to. how would you feel if you found a dead animal near your plants?
Reply:Yes they are smart enough.
Reply:animals have the natural instinct of wat 2 eat and wat not to. so u can plant. no harm.acting resources