Why do we not see that many animal corpses in forests, deserts etc where animals would probably be dying regularly? Do all of them get devoured by scavengers or be absorbed into the soil?

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Why do we not see that many animal corpses in forests, deserts etc where animals would probably be dying regularly? Do all of them get devoured by scavengers or be absorbed into the soil?

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

As a side note, the vultures in India were relied upon to dispose of the dead in the Tower of Silence in Mumbai, according to the Zoroastrian faith. However, in the 1990s, a drug used on cows wiped out 95% of the vulture population that got rid of the cadavers.