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To: shibumi

Full skeletons usually last around a month or so. (depending on conditions and appetites)

A year out, you’ll probably have a semi-concentration of slightly scattered single bones.

Additionally, rodents will gnaw bones and antlers for calcium.

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Now, something that scavengers won’t touch, will last considerably longer.

YMMV.


22 posted on 05/23/2010 12:02:17 AM PDT by Fichori ('Wee-Weed Up' pitchfork wielding neolithic caveman villager with lit torch. Any questions?)
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To: Fichori

Somehow I knew you’d know that.


23 posted on 05/23/2010 12:05:02 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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