Why is it more common to find skulls of dead animals standalone rather than skulls and their skeletons?
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In Africa you have **Hyenas** as the ultimate clean up crew. Their incredible jaw strength can crush any bone.
In many parts of Asia you have the **Bearded Vulture**. A species that has learned to crack open skulls and other large bones by dropping them from the air.
In American forests and plains and deserts you have plenty of vultures, and other carrion eaters like coyotes and wolves, but nothing that lives up to the efficiency of the two abovementioned hence while flesh and small bones are cleaned away the biggest bones and the skulls remain.
Also cows and other herbivores will eat old dried up bones when they are Phosphorus deficient (or bored or just plain mad). Skulls would generally be too awkward for them to eat though.
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