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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I learned recently that sites like Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump in Alberta had hundreds of years of burried bones pile up to the point that the cliffs are much less high than they were originally.
During WW(I?) they mined a lot of them for the phosphorous in the bones to make explosives. HSIBJ is one of the few untouched sites due to the relatively low phosphorous content of the bones there.
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