“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?
I have a good test-bed for my theory on that. I know where a wolf pack killed 12-15 elk all in one shot... WAY more than the local rodents (esp. porkies) can probably quickly consume... A winter kill-off would be a similar scenario... I will go back there this fall, and again next summer some time, to see if the bones actually get consumed.
I reckon that once the bones dry out, they become quite difficult to gnaw on, and will be rejected for whatever is being newly killed... It is the only reason I can think of for old, scattered, but largely intact bones, which one is liable to find from time to time...
If bigfoot were a hominid, wouldn’t it make more sense that it hides or buries its dead as Neanderthal is known to have done, or perhaps is eaten by other bigfeet as the almost million year old hominid bones appeared to have been in a Spanish cave (Atapuerca?)