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WARNING: This article/video from National Geographic contains images and information that may be very disturbing to some if you are in the least bit queasy about human remains. A whitetail deer was found gnawing on a human carcass. This is a first in a long term study on what happens to human remains in the wild.

[news.nationalgeographic.com]

evidentialist 8 Jan 27
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have no problem with this, we are all "game" when we are dead, what does it matter , and feeding another living thing is a good thing in nature

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Makes you want to sigh up for cremation doesn't it.

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Life taking advantage as a survival tactic..

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Critters gotta eat. Food is where you find it.

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Being an avid hunter and thinking I know much about the habit of animal in North America, I was most surly surprised to see this.

@Leutrelle -- So was I. I have hunted for food a lot during my time on this planet and that was the first time I'd heard anything like that, but I can understand why.

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this is very interesting and also not for the squeamish

Same place. Forensic studies are interesting, but I wouldn't want to do it.

I wouldn't mind having a look round

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giraffe do it too. it's for added calcium

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This is where I'd like to go, back into circulation with the universe. The thought of being denied that, in a coffin or an urn, is abhorrent to me.

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