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To: 21twelve; valkyry1
I’ve come across many large skeletons in drier climates. Traipsing around in Minnesota or Western Washington - can’t recall ever seeing any. I don’t think it takes long for the bugs and worms to decompose everything.

The meat is gone in no time, and porcupines get the bones... nothing left but a patch of hair in a few weeks/months. And it isn't big game, or large skeletons necessarily - It is more about population. It is not uncommon to come across a deer or an elk carcass - I have seen many in my life.

The reason one doesn't find predator bones is more about statistics. Predators are spread far thinner in the landscape - by an order of magnitude. One is far less likely to stumble upon their carcasses for that reason. They are rare.

64 posted on 05/23/2010 10:09:38 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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To: roamer_1

“It is more about population.”

That makes sense! I know that the areas where I have seen lots of bones (elk in both cases) had large herds. I guess even porcupines can get full!? I wonder if past a certain age that the bones are no good to eat?


65 posted on 05/24/2010 1:24:58 AM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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