With all the millions of animals everywhere - birds,fish,wild animals - you hardly ever see a dead body...?

Question

...anywhere. Is nature that efficient at cleaning itself up?

Answer 1

Yes, dead things are eaten very quickly by coyotes, vultures, crows, ravens, insects, etc. I work as a wildlife biologist and occassionally run into dead animals, which disappear very quickly. Once found a dead wild pig on my study site and it was gone in 2 days, although it was quite large. Birds, and smaller animals get eaten even more quickly.

Answer 2

When is the last time you went dead body hunting? To answer your question, yes. There are millions of factors that will remove and/or hide dead things from you. Most obvious and successful would be scavenger animals. A dead body means food so why lay it around where anyone could come and take their meal? Also, decomposition helps with allowing the body to be broken up by the animals and then taken off to their favored eating destinations.

Answer 3

You are not looking in the right places our highways are strewn with road kill almost every day of the year except possibly in dead of winter when most warm blooded animals tend to hibernate are hide from weather extremes.

Answer 4

obviously you don't drive any of Americas highways...dead animals along them all the time

Answer 5

mother nature"s generosity