Why aren’t the woods just chock full of bones?

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When I was a kid, we used to explore the woods all the time. I came across a couple dead mice or birds in my time, but they were always recently deceased.

But tons of animals live and presumably die in the woods. Why aren’t the woods covered in deer and bear and raccoon skeletons? Where are all the bones going?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Fun fact.

All those processes and critters to consume the bones don’t exist in Antactica.

Those lovely panoramic shots of Antarctic penguin colonies, the film crew are almost certainly standing on decades of penguin corpses mixed in with a little dirt. It’s exactly as you asked, except the skeletons are still fleshy.

I knew people who had to dig a hole next to a penguin colony, five meters down they were still extracting intact preserved penguins.

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