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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Good comments about bones breaking down or being eaten! Also: Opportunistic animals will scavenge small pieces of a carcass and move them away from the rest of the body to somewhere safer for them to eat it. That’s why it’s quite rare to find an intact skeleton, the pieces have been scattered and dragged away by animals. (Though my forensics instructor in college said the exception was human bodies that had high levels of methamphetamines in them…the animals leave those alone.)
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