Why is it more common to find skulls of dead animals standalone rather than skulls and their skeletons?
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Everyone’s pretty much said it, scavangers moving the parts while they have soft tissue, skulls surviving being chewed on more and also being more visible. When scavenging for parts in somewhat putrid corpses (seals) I usually get some ribs out and the rest is still stuck right in there.
Funny story though, back when my father did overland tours of Southern Africa he and some colleagues once put in the effort to find all the now dry and scattered bones of a giraffe and neatly laid them together in the right configuration and it stumped so many tourists that they took down that route for years to come.
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