Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Crime Scene Investigation

Found this the other day while performing corrective pruning.  A complete and articulated deer skeleton.  A buck too.


click on the bones to enlarge

Had to be a spring death from a year ago as the animal had already shed its antlers.  Which would also make it impossible to be a wounded deer from the hunting season.

It was found within a couple hundred yards of the edge of the road however.  Likely scenario is that the whitetail was struck by a vehicle and made it this far before expiring.  But I'm not excavating it for a forensic exam to look for broken bones.

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