Where do all the dead animals go?

Question

There are birds and hedgehogs and mice and rats everywhere, and their lifespans are on the short side - why don't we see any lying around? According to my calculations, there should be heaps of dead doves in any larger, European city. But I've never seen one.
Do you know what happens?

Answer 1

Hello!
Here's your answer, I hope it helps! :)

In the 25 Nov-1 Dec issue (No. 2579), a reader asked: "There are billions of birds worldwide, so why is it that you rarely, if ever, see a dead one?"

Well, I have seen many dead birds. In fact, I had a series of posts on the “afterlife” of one gray catbird (here, here and here). Once, I even found by the side of a busy road a large dead hawk that had apparently been struck by a vehicle. One summer several years ago, I explored a small Mediterranean island where gulls nested and where there were tens of dead juvenile gulls.

But, yes, one would think that with all those birds flying around, the dead ones would be coming down like rain. The reason why we don't see more dead birds is that dead birds, and in general all dead animals, get eaten very quickly. This is especially true in neighborhoods near forests. We have had our garbage can raided by raccoons and opossums on probably more occasions than we are aware of. With such scavengers prowling the neighborhoods nightly, the sun would never rise on a dead bird on a suburban yard.

For the same reason, one's chances of encountering a dead bird is even less in the woods. The only dead animals I have encountered in the woods were deer. They take longer to disappear, because they are so much larger than any other animal in forests around here. Incidentally, deer carcasses are more common alongside roads than in forests, because the scavengers have less access to them outside the forests.

Also, many birds are migratory. Many of those that die while flying at high altitudes may fall onto mountain tops or into oceans or forests.

Answer 2

In islam, all the dead animall were go to paradise.
It's because,animal doesn't have sins.... they are so lucky.

Answer 3

animal control picks up dead animals and road kill :)

Answer 4

they go to the animal´s heaven... (I hope)